Rainbow Homes Program Embrace Educate Enable

Association for Rural and Urban Needy (ARUN) & Rainbow Foundation India (RFI)

Over 18 million children are on the streets. How are they there?

They are forced into unpaid, unhygienic and hazardous labour such as rag-picking, manual scavenging, pick-pocketing and stealing, which often leads to drugs and substance abuse. Their lives eventually get pushed to impending criminalisation.

How do they suffer on the streets?

They are neglected and live an invisible life. They are homeless with no roots, identity, security, care or protection. Out of one billion people in India, 30% are children living either as squatters, refugees or rural migrants in temporary shelters on the streets or in slums in major cities.

What is Rainbow Homes?

Rainbow Homes is an innovative program which provides non-custodial, comprehensive care for vulnerable children from street situations and extreme vulnerabilities. The program aims to integrate them into regular schools and helps to put them on an equal footing with other children their own age.

Rainbow Homes Program is an umbrella approach under two entities - Association for Rural and Urban Needy (ARUN) & Rainbow Foundation India (RFI). Through, Rainbow Homes for girls,Sneh Ghars for boys (sneh meaning affection, ghar meaning home), residential hostels, community based care in the form of Rainbow Community Care and group living we ensure access to the child's basic rights. This program was designed keeping in mind the unique needs and rights of these children as envisaged under United Nations' Conventions on rights of children (UNCRC) and the covers guidelines for institutional care of children as per the Juvenile Justice Act (care and protection) 2015.

70 residential care homes, child cum community-based care via Rainbow Community Centres, group living for young adults under the Futures Program in ten cities PAN India

Rainbow Homes Program PAN India

2002 (100 children) -----------------> 2022 (around 4364 children) and growing!!

How?

The child cum community-centric approach caters to the below areas essential for building bright futures for our children.

Regular monthly health checkups ensure the children are healthy and free of any infections.

A quick glance at life in Rainbow Homes

Sneh Ghars

What makes us unique?

An innovative social, community care franchise working in partnership with government, Corporates & civil society. After all, it's a collective social responsibility we are all part of!

Numbers Talk!

Data fetched from Rainbow Online Reporting (ROR) is subject to change, according to the transition of the children.

Volunteering , forging partnerships , building futures.

The Rainbow Homes Program has been officially recognised under SSA (now SMSA) Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan as an effective initiative for reaching out to vulnerable children from the streets.

Rainbow home girls with their home mother

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children - Nelson Mandela

Nurturing our young children to be independent thinkers.

Helping children grow into responsible global citizens of tomorrow

RHP is implemented by collaborating organisations, ARUN & RFI registered as NGO under society's act, wherein RFI is 80G compliant and ARUN is both FCRA & 80G compliant.

Join us on this amazing journey, where we commit ourselves to embrace, educate and enable.

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Created By

Sakshi Tiwari

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Credits:

Sakshi Tiwari - Communications Rainbow Homes Program - ARUN National Office , Hyderabad