How Can You Help?
Donations to CASP are exempted under section 80G of the Indian Income Tax Act 1961.
You can help by sponsoring the underprivileged child/children from any work area where CASP implements its programmes.
This can be done by way of:
| Indian Sponsors |
Rs 21,000 per child |
| Foreign Sponsors |
US $ 900 per child |
Annual Sponsorship (Contribution every year)
| Indian Sponsors |
Rs 3000 per child per year |
| Foreign Sponsors |
US $ 125 per child per annum |
The Cafeteria Approach
The needs under cafeteria approach are classified and sponsorship contribution for the same is also finalized of which details are as under:
| Sr No |
Type of Support |
Sponsorship Contribution |
| 1. |
Nutrition |
Rs 2000 (per child per year) |
| 2. |
Health |
Rs 2,000 (per child per year) |
| 3. |
Education |
Rs 2,000 (per child per year) |
Under Cafeteria Approach, the programmatic activity includes
(a) Nutrition : Supplementary meal
(b) Health : Periodical medical check-up, basic treatment and insurance.
(c) Education : Educational aid i.e. text books, notebooks and stationery, tution
support as per need.
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Donation
Donation can be of any amount. The donations are utilized for non-sponsorship programmes such as strengthening rural schools through distance education, seed money for income generation programme for women, health care of the elderly, hut rehabilitation programme for Adivasis (Nomadic tribes) etc. vocational training, creativity workshops for children, nutrition for the elderly or for the malnourished children.
What will you receive as an annual or long term annual sponsor?
You will receive :
- Personal details and photographs of the sponsored child and his/her family
- Every year progress report
- Letters, drawing and thank you notes from the sponsored child.
- CASP quarterly newsletter / annual report
- Assistance in arranging your visit to the sponsored child and his/her family.
The backbone of this programme is a professionally trained team of social workers.
- On referral, either directly from the family or through the community: a social worker visits the home of the child, obtains a school performance certificate, a medical certificate and submits a report.
- A team of honorary consultants / Manager, examines the proposals/applications for aid and determines its grant, continuance or otherwise
- A case file is maintained of every sponsored child
- The social worker visits the child's home and school at least once in 6 months, keeps in touch with the parents / guardians and ascertains that aid is given properly as per the need and when due.
- Periodic progress reports are sent to the sponsors.
The social workers supervise the child's progress and counsel the sponsored children and their families, developing a personal rapport with them and make efforts to help the families to help themselves.
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The Concept of Sponsorship
Child welfare is a vast field. As the institutional care services started showing diminishing returns after some time. Different approaches to child-care and child-welfare were thought of. One of those was Sponsorship.
The idea is to help and support a child and lend a helping hand in his/her development. This is more practical and humane concept as the child remains with his/her parents or guardian and is not uprooted from the family home. Parents and family members still have the parental responsibilities and rights over the child.
A sponsor means a person who takes the responsibility of another person and provides for his/her assitance.
As the childcare was becoming difficult and inadequate to meet the needs of a great number of children suffering from poverty, ignorance, lack of opportunities for development, CASP supported the concept of sponsorship.
According to Dr S D Gokhale , CASP founder-president, “Sponsorship is not charity or donation. It is not foster care and it does not provide alternative houses for children. It is not adoption. Children are not uprooted from their natural families. It does not provide direct relief in the form of dole/money to the sponsored families. It is a fond and carefully cultivated professional relationship, an emotional bond between two individuals, usually not related to each other. It is a process to help a needy child living in his/her family with a sense of social responsibility by active participation in planning and monitoring the total development of child.”
Sponsorship remains at the core of CASP's work. Individuals and organizations can through an annual or long term contribution see a child through school and in some cases beyond into higher studies. The money goes towards providing the child's educational needs: school fees, books and stationery, uniforms, shoes and socks, even spectacles, calipers and medical treatment for those who need it. Sponsors are sent detail record of the child; the family circumstances so that they can share in their wards' upbringing.
Sponsorship is not exchange of money; it is an emotional bond. The children on their part are encouraged to keep in touch with their sponsors: through letters, drawings and reports on their performance at school.
Slowly but steadily the concept of sponsorship started unfolding and blossoming into a variety of colourful flowers.
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Guiding Principles of Sponsorship
- To involve the community to share the responsibility for the care, protection and development of children in their own natural families.
- To build and retain a one-to-one relationship between the child and the sponsor till the child can stand on his/her own feet and lead a better quality of life.
- To ensure that the child has right to an adequate shelter and a good home
- To enable him/her to get education through school
- To provide him all opportunities of a normal child for growth and development
- To provide economic security for meeting his/her basic needs of health, education, habitat, etc. with the help of the sponsor.
Above all, what the child needs, is the right and sound counseling by a professional worker in times of difficulty or crisis in the family.
What happens to children after their sponsorship support is over?
In normal circumstances, the sponsorship support to a child is terminated when the child attains the age of 18 years.
In deserving cases of children pursuing the professional courses such as Medicine, Engineering etc. the financial assistance is continued even after 18 years with the help of the sponsor and in some cases vocational training is provided through CASP funds.
Further the ex-sponsored children are encouraged to join the Alumni Association which conducts various activities such as career counseling, personality development camps etc. for the ex-sponsored children.
The successful children become role models for sponsored children and act as unofficial ambassadors of CASP to carry the torch further. Back to to |
