Christmas/Farewell Party Photos

The volunteers of the Street Child Project and the kids at Sneha Child Development Centre had a great time at Majestic City & KFC as we said goodbye to an amazing group of kids. These kids will leave the centre by the end of January in order to start school and will be placed in different orphanages in and around Sri Lanka, as the centre cares for orphans below the age of 6.

Christmas Party - An Update

The Street Child Project will have a Christmas/Farewell party for the children at Sneha Child Development Center.

Date - 26th December 2014
Time - 3PM - 6PM
Location - Majestic City & KFC

As much as we are looking forward to taking the kids on a a fun day out, we also have heavy hearts as this is truly goodbye to a group of spectacular children, with so much promise at their end and so much love at ours!

 

Christmas Party - Kids at Sneha

The Street Child Project is planning a Christmas Party for the children at Sneha Child Centre. The older kids would soon be leaving the orphanage as they need to attend school starting January, and have to be placed in different homes geared for older orphans. Currently, Sneha cares for orphans below the age of 6. This will be our goodbye/farewell party as well, as the courts and Child Probation Services are unwilling to reveal information of children once they leave a particular orphange. There are 12 children. The cost per child will be 400LKR. If anyone is interested in sponsoring 1 child, contact us by email on thestreetchildproject@gmail.com or message us on FB.

Sneha Outing

The children of Sneha Child Centre and the volunteers of The Street Child Project had a wonderful time on 22nd November at Independence Square and KFC as planned on the Fun Day Out. We took the kids to Independence Square and then the play area at KFC ending with a delicious ice cream cone for each child.

A Fun Day Out for the Children at Sneha

The volunteers of The Street Child Project are planning a fun day out for the children at Sneha Child Development Centre. The English lessons have been going well and the volunteers and kids have bonded over the last several months, so we've decided to add a fun event to our calender.

Date: 22 November 2014

Location: Independence Square & Ice Cream at KFC

Time: 3.30PM to 6.00PM

What we need: transport, we will be hiring 2, 10 seater vans (each costs Rs. 700 one way) food packets for the kids made up of a sandwich, small packet of biscuits, chocolate/smarties and a bottle of drink/water. And anyone who would like to sponsor this event and/or join us to make this day a special one for the kids at Sneha!

Sneha Centre - An Update

We were back at Sneha Child Development Centre for the fourth week running. The chaos has considerably lessened and the children seem to enjoy seeing us come back every week. In fact, they exclaim in delight, "You've come back to teach us". So here's something we learnt about one of the kids at the centre. A beautiful little girl, just 4 years old with no mother and a drug addict for a father was removed from her home due to unsuitable living conditions and placed at Sneha a couple of years ago. The father has never visited her once since she was removed from her own home. In the meantime, a childless couple had shown great interest in adopting this little girl. They had started legal adoption proceedings and had almost come to the end of it, when the biological father, still her legal guardian, demanded 1.5 million rupees in exchange of terminating his parental rights. This man had placed a price tag on his child. The adoption proceedings were immediately stopped by the couple who were devastated, but not willing to give in to the demands of a drug addict wanting to swap his daughter for a couple of million. This story is heartbreaking, but it has made us more determined to continue serving underpriviledged children in our community. 

"We ourseleves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop"
Mother Teresa

Bethlehem Creche - An Update

The children at the Bethlehem Creche have shown great improvement since we started teaching them English nearly two months ago. They learn several poems each week and recite their favorite one the following week. This is certainly encouraging to the volunteers of The Street Child Project knowing our time and energy are being put to good use. They enjoy reading picture and word books and take turns in twos and threes repeating what they have just learnt. Their enthusiasm and passion for learning a language that is foreign to them is incredible and it gives us great hope!

English Lessons Continue at Sneha

The volunteers of The Street Child Project were back at Sneha Child Development Centre to teach the adorable 4 and 5 year olds English. It was less chaotic than last week which enabled us to snap a few photos! Some of the kids are so smart and pick up everything we teach them - literally. This week we went one step further and taught them a little poem about a 'Little Bird'. They learned the poem in 5 minutes and recited it much to our pleasure!

First English Lesson at Sneha

The Street Child Project had its first English lesson at Sneha Child Development Centre this Saturday morning. The Centre houses 21 orphans between the ages of 1 and 5. Our volunteers taught Spoken English to the older children while the younger ones enjoyed an art & craft session. The Street Child Project has received funding to conduct lessons for the next 3 months at this Centre. It was chaos by the end of the lesson but it was a satisfying chaos for both the volunteers and kids at Sneha.

Sneha Child Development Centre

The Street Child Project is happy to annouce it has taken on its second task for the year 2014. We will be teaching English to children aged 4 and 5 at the Sneha Child Development Centre. The Sneha Child Development Centre in Colombo 4 was inaugurated on 25th November 1971. The centre houses orphans between the ages of 1 and 5. There is a pre-school and a fully equipped playground on the premises. A day care centre was built in 2004 for children from low income families in the neighbourhood, in order for parents to go out to work and make a living knowing their kids are in safe hands.

English Lessons at Bethlehem Creche

Volunteers of the Street Child Project teaching English to children at Bethlehem Creche. The kids are 4 and 5 years old. They are enthusiastic, vibrant and endearing! These kids are passionate about learning the English language. We teach them little poems, and read word and picture books to them. Here they are seen taking turns with the picture books donated by our dear family and friends.

Bethlehem Creche

The Bethlehem Creche, established in 1954 in Wanathamulla (a poverty striken area in the heart of Colombo) helps care for children aged 1 to 5 irrespective of their racial and religious backgrounds. This is a day care centre run by Apostolic Carmelite nuns and assists 75 to 85 infants and children from low income families. The fathers of these children are either in prison or have deserted them due to various vices including drugs, alcohol or worse. The mothers have to fend for themselves and their children by undertaking menial jobs.

 
The children need to be clothed, fed, given medical attention and nursery education. Currently, the Street Child Project is teaching Spoken English to children between the ages of 4 and 5. The children enjoy reciting poems, reading picture books and singing nursery rhymes. This is the first task undertaken by the volunteers of the Street Child Project. We have had generous donors contribute towards the purchase of English books to be used in the coming months.