Society for Children (SOCH)

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Society for Children (SOCH) is a non-profit registered organization established in 2012. It aims to work on the prevention of child rights at the community level, rescue children from exploitation & rehabilitation through experiential learning and care.
SOCH is a nonprofit organization which works at Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Brahmapur Railway Stations. It works to rescue children who are lost, missing and have run away from their homes. The main philosophy of the organization is that the safest and happiest place for children is their homes. Hence, the first step which the organization takes after rescuing a child is to contact the family of the child, understand the reasons of runaway or missing in comprehensive way. SOCH involves Govt. System and put all efforts to reunite the children with their family.
Along with tracing and connecting them with their families, the organization also aims to provide counseling to the child as well as its parents. The counselor tries to understand the reason for leaving home and helps the child understand the ill effects of platform life. Also parents are provided psycho education for maintaining healthy relation with child.

Vision
To create a just society, where all children are living happily, enjoying all their due rights.

Mission
To realize the rights of deprived children and their rehabilitation.

Aims and objectives
• To rescue and resettle runaway, missing, abducted and abandoned children. First priority will be given to family reunion and last option for Institutional Care.
• To rescue and resettle working children and begging children
• To rescue and rehabilitate addicted and hard behavior street children through de-addiction and behavioral modification camp.
• To provide healthcare service for children.
• To give safe and nurtured environment for orphan children and for physically and mentally challenged children.
• To encourage foster parenting and alternative care for children in need of care and protection.

Projects:
• Project Rakshyak: It is all about rescue and resettlement of runaway, missing, abducted and abandoned children majorly focusing at railway stations. Rescued children are brought to a Counselling Center for necessary counselling, food, first aid and cloth support. Due efforts are made to trace the family address of the children. Then children are either reunited with their families or put on institutional care with appropriate involvement of government’s Juvenile Justice System. Project Rakshyak initiated with establishment of SOCH in July 2012. Operation in 3 clusters of Bhubaneswar, Berhampur and Puri, the project has rescued over 3000 children; and reunited over 2200 children with their famolies as per the figures till 31st March 2017.
• Project Punarjivan: It is a one month Behavior Modification Camp working for the hard behavior children, who have a habit of running away regularly or have been separated from their family for a longer duration. These children undergo a change in their behavior and attitude during their stay in the camp through a structured schedule which includes of Spiritual, Counseling, Educational, Games and Entertainment activities under the guidance of professional teachers. The address tracing is pursued simultaneously. At the end of the camp, most of the children are happily reunited with their families and others are referred to various child care institutions for long term care and protection.
• Project Pankh: The project aims to provide counselling, mentoring, life skill building training and facilitating vocational training with job placement support to the youth from difficult or no family background.

Manoj Kumar is the Founder Director of Society for Children (SOCH).

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