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Street and Ragpickers Ministry
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Why Agape has taken up the challenge to reach these groups?
Why we have taken up this challenge?
 
  • To demonstrate that in God's eyes all are equal
  • To transform the rag picker through education and love to be accepted by society
  • To share the gospel of Jesus Christ
  • To minister to an unjustly victimized people
  • To provide education and confidence to equip them for the future
  • To provide health education and give physical and psychological medical care.
   

What we are doing at present at street children ministry

Provision of a safe house, Agape Children Centre, where these children can experience Christian love and commitment. We aim to provide shelter for rag pickers and orphaned children between 5 and 10 years of age, demonstrating and encouraging social skills and hygiene, and enabling them to bathe, rest, play, and wash their clothing. At present, 19 Girls and 24 Boys are being cared in our 2 separate centers with 8 staffs.

Vision for the future

  • To add more boys from the streets as residents in the hostel and send them to school.
  • To provide 24-hour drop-in centers with facilities for bathing, sleeping, medical care, and play.
  • To set up training centers, teaching marketable and useful skills, which will provide self-sufficiency and independence.
  • To encourage local people to offer apprenticeships.
  • To support and act as an information resource to other churches and organizations that wish to set up and develop similar shelters.
Street children represent the end point of a complex set of factors, which require a multitude of resources and efforts to address the problem. A situation that has been created due to the existing social, political, and economic pressures in society, needs to be addressed at the root of the problem, through an attitudinal change.

While meeting both the immediate and long-term needs of the individual child, Agape's strategies aim at creating an awareness of the situation that forces the child onto the street. We also aim to create a movement that will challenge the exploitative situation imposed on the street child, a situation that has sadly robbed children of their right to a joyful safe childhood.

However, change is not an easy process. A change that demands a modification in attitudes, as well as change in the social, economic, and political situation, is a slower process. Policy makers, industry, society, even the Church, will need to view the street children with compassion and sensitivity.

This is the only way towards ensuring a better future for the children, and we strongly believe that this is only possible through commitment and perseverance.

Agape's efforts must be seen as a highway in the direction of ensuring a life of dignity for street children. But in the final analysis, it is important to emphasize that responsibility for the child ultimately rests with individual parents, teachers, communities, and the Church. And the sooner that this is realized, the sooner progress can be made.

Resources
  Residential accommodations for Boys and Girls separately called: Agape Children Center.
  We encourage them to save money.
  Voluntary services including the washing of clothes.
  Invitations from Church members and well wishers for meals and befriending with these children.
  Youth Club with Snacks and Hygenic teaching classes at every Thursday evening.
 
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Agape Children at a entertainment tour to Mysore City
 
Agape Children at a entertainment tour to Mysore City

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