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These are points at which new arrivals are met. Working children also use them as day-care centers, which provide proper nutrition, clothing, medical aid and recreational facilities. SBT contact points are primarily counseling centers - they attempt to either repatriate runaway children to their families, or to rehabilitate them in full-care shelters run by the agency or by other appropriate NGOs. Since many children coming to the contact points have high-risk behavior, these centers also seek to inform children about health & hygiene, substance abuse issues, HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment of STDs, and reproductive health.
   
  Contact Points
 
 
   







 
SBT works through the following contact points in Delhi:

General Reserve Police or G.R.P CENTER, New Delhi Railway Station
Situated at New Delhi railway station, this was the center where SBT began operating 18 years ago. This half-day care center is offers medical assistance, non-formal education, awareness programs, and games and recreation. A health post was been set up at this centre to provide medical care to the children in the station area.

PLATFORM, New Delhi Railway Station
The platform has often been an informal SBT contact point, but since the year 2000, it has become a permanent Contact Point. The Platform school came into existence in 1996, and now has over 20 students. It also functions as a contact point for street children at the Ajmeri Gate car park of the station. Since the railway station is often the point of arrival for runaway children, this contact center helps SBT establish contact with children before they fall into irreversibly damaging patterns of behavior or company.

Prerna
A new Inspiration, started in 2003 , Prerna is a unique intervention working with children who are living with their families but devoid of their childhood, these are children who have never seem anything else then parents and never chased any dreams but their prospective customers to sell them balloons, small toys, flowers etc. These are the children who sell these things to supplement meager income of their families. Prerna is getting hugely popular with street children -girls & boys alike. Prerna inculcates healthy habits, interest in education and social awareness in these children besides providing them food and nutrition, clothing, primary health services, life skill education and opportunity of recreation with their peers. This year Prerna inspired lives of 90 children in ways more than one.

Kishalaya - HANUMAN MANDIR, Connaught Place
Kishalaya at Hanuman Mandir has been a regular day center since it was opened in December 1999. It caters to over 25 boys and girls in the age group of 3-18 years. Many children visiting this center have had to undergo drug de-addiction in the drive to help them join the main-stream of society.

Old Delhi Contact Point
Runs at platform No.1- A, Old Delhi Railway Station. This contact point has been started recently in February 2007. There are about 25 children both boys and girls receive counseling, first aid, supplementary nutrition, non formal education and health education.

Saket Contact Point
This is the latest point to make contact started in south Delhi. It is located near electric substation, behind PVR-Anupam Cinema at Saket. There are 20-25 children receiving counseling, first aid, non formal education and supplementary food.



 


· Provision of proper nutrition, clothing and hygiene facilities.

· On-going education, through non-formal education and the National Open School (NOS) system.

· Provision of first aid, medical check ups and tests, HIV/AIDS testing (on voluntary basis), and referral to drug de-addiction   programmes.

· Recreational facilities: art and craft, music, out-door and indoor games, excursions within Delhi, andan annual educational tour   to
  hill resorts.

· Savings schemes to encourage financial prudence.

· Child Rights awareness program, in association with Child Rights Club and Bal Adhikar Manch.

· Fostering a sense of communal harmony and an awareness of other religions, through observance of all major festivals.

· Capacity building of the contact point staff on regular basis.