The Aware Foundation Cricket Gala Dinner 2019
A short clip of our cricket legends gala event with full speeches from Jayesh Patel (founder of AWARE) and Rajesh Bhat (Trustee).
Jayesh Visiting the Children in India
Jayesh (founder of AWARE) has spent the last few weeks visiting some of the projects that AWARE supports in India. He visited two schools in South Gujarat district of Narmada. The children are 6-14 years old, and are accommodated in hostels on the same campus, these two schools are in the second most deprived and unprivileged areas in India…
Samadaan Shelter Home
AWARE has borne the costs of this shelter home, rehabilitating children of HIV+ parents.
The shelter is a well-managed home with 33 boys, some of these children are orphans, and some have only one parent and all have at least one parent who is HIV positive.
Samvedana Shelter Home
Apart from Samadaan, at Samvedana, a shelter home for HIV-infected children, 38 boys and girls live and go to school along with their HIV treatment. Samvedana is located at Mangalore. So, in Kranataka, TAF supports 71 children at two different shelter homes.
Aaranyak Project
At Aaranyak in Dediapada, Shaishav is currently working in 14 villages towards making them “child-friendly villages” by improving the situation of child rights and awareness about it among children and other stakeholders. The process involves active participation of children and adults. The effort also involves enhancing life skills in children.
Swapath Trust
After the American India Foundation (AIF) took over the entire Swapath Trust Dang project team and started handling the projects directly, Swapath had to start from scratch in Dangs. With one old team member crossing over the fence and an entire new team slowly getting built, Swapath reached out to only 130 children through four seasonal hostels (SHs) in 2021-22.
Karunagram Shelter Home
Karuna Gram is a well-managed shelter home for street children (now for boys only) It shelters 16 boys from various places in Gujarat. These are children who could not be reunited with their families. Karuna Gram believes that quality inputs and exposure to the outside world helps their education process. The children are taken on excursions, workshops and to academic institutions of repute.
Child Rights Collective Gujarat (CRCG)
During the pandemic, when the field activities were at a standstill, CRCG ran a series of on-line training sessions which were very well attended, six such sessions covered the following topics: (1) Communicating with children in difficult situations; (2) Case analysis of typical ChildLine (helpline for children) cases; (3) Understanding children’s development stages and our behaviour as adults (4) Significance of life skills in education; (5) Restarting schools after the pandemic; (6) Recent amendments in the Juvenile Justice Act and their likely impact on children.