'The Lost Childhood"
Child Labourers & Street Children

Child labour impairs health, disrupts education, alters their perspective of society and violates the rights of children. Proper schooling and education brings these children into main stream.

Transit School Programme A National Child Labour Project (NCLP) of the Central Government implemented in the slums of Chennai in coordination with NCOs.

• Aims to prepare child labourers and school dropouts for readmission into schools according to their age and intellectual capacity
• Involves one year of preparation
• A "Transit School' usually has 25-30 children
• Children in the age group of 6-16 are taken care of Syllabus includes non-formal and formal education