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Min Ai

 

Website: www.min-ai.org

Address: Fuxing Garden, Longwei Rd, Meilin, Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518049

Phone: (86-755) 8318 6912/6913/6262

 

Shenzhen Min Ai Disabled Children’s Welfare Center helps physically and mentally challenged children who are unable to go to normal schools. The center’s main goal is to build self-confidence, teach skills and improve the communication abilities and daily lifestyle of those children. They also assist families in adapting with their situation.

 

The center is qualified by the Shenzhen Disabled People Association as a disabled children education and training organization. The center offers specialized education for challenged children, rehabilitation training, psychological treatment, medical care, nursing and nutritional help. Children are taught through music, games, acting, videos and sense harmonization.

 

Min Ai receives only a very small subsidy from the government, so most of the money necessary to run the center comes from donations.

 

I have worked with a mentally disabled child before. His parents were not accepting of the fact that he needed special care and help, so they placed him in a normal school. He constantly hurt other children because he simply didn’t know how to control his body and was very scared. That experience made me realize that centers like Min Ai are extremely important in giving disabled individuals a chance for a happy and functional life.

Charities

 

This journey is dedicated to Min Ai and Amcha Ghar charities because both organizations deal with helping the weakest in their societies - children born in unfortunate conditions.

 

Our future is vulnerable because our children are our future. We cannot offer a home to every child we see on the street, nor can we miraculously cure disabilities, but we can still do something to help.

Amcha Ghar

 

Website: www.amchaghar.org

Address: No. 407, Deep Sagar Bldg., Uttan Light House Rd, Motha Gaon, Uttan, Bhayander West, Maharastra 401106

Phone: (91-22) 2845 1022, (91) 98 7040 3289, (91) 98 9227 0729

 

Amcha Ghar, a home for girls, is dedicated helping homeless female children - irrespective of their religion or caste - who are susceptible to the harsh conditions of living on the street.

 

Most Amcha Ghar girls are rejected children, orphans who do not know their origin, children of commercial sex workers, children abused by their relatives, children who have witnessed the suicide of family members, and children deserted due to poverty and hardship. Some girls’ parents have contracted HIV/AIDS and are unable to care for them, although the girls themselves do not have HIV. Some were sold to brothels in other states, expected to suffer pain in silence; others had resorted to glue-sniffing to escape daily physical and emotional duress. These children are often found in unhygienic conditions on streets and beaches, or in parks, parking lots or slums.

 

The home aims to educate homeless and often previously abused girls in an English-medium school, and to train and transform them into skilled adult women who are able to live independent lives in mainstream society. The main objective is to give them an opportunity in life that protects them from the clutches of the darker sides of society.

 

I have seen girls living on the streets while traveling. Some of them were begging, searching for food in rubbish bins or selling their own body. I want to support the hard work Amcha Ghar is doing in giving them a new life.

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