Impulse NGO Network (INGON)

PHASE - II

EVOLUTION

Along with these fund raising programmes INGON graduated to the second phase of its existence.  It was felt among the members that the time was ripe for initiating more concrete programme for children.  By now the team was exposed to the acute needs for children in the fields of health & nutrition, education & recreation.

These realizations culminated into Sunshine, INGON’s care programme for children in need of care and protection. For the materialization of the programme, UNITED NATIONS’ CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF A CHILD (CRC) was adopted as the guideline by the organization.

The organization had by then, already developed a strong team of volunteers. With them, the core team members then carried out an extensive Need Assessment survey for child labourers in Shillong city.  In this process, the volunteers met the child labourers of the city, who were involved in various odd jobs, like selling beetle nuts, newspapers, etc. At the completion of the survey, the report of the assessment pointed out the need of conducting regular health camps, nutrition programmes & counseling sessions for these children on priority basis. For this purpose, INGON approached the Shanti Bhavan for providing a place to the organization to carry out its intervention programmes for children.

Started since 1998 Sunshine, has been continuing till date. It entails regular, weekly programme for the child labourers, catering to aspects like health & nutrition, recreation, counseling, education and sensitizing these children about their rights as underlined by the CRC

Under this Programme, the organization has built up a network with the local hotels for nutrition programmes, local chemists for health care programmes and the local educational institutions for imparting education to those children who wants to go to school, free of cost

Local hotels, which have come forward to support the Programme, are Hotel Polo Towers, Hotel Broadway, Shillong Club

Among the local chemists, the following are the major donors of free medicines for the successful health programmes for children, Economic Medical Hall, Delite Pharmacy, APCO Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Dr. H. Ghonglah & Dr. Hema Devi formed a team of volunteer doctors, who came forward to work on  the health programme of the organization.

Sunshine programme, which is a regular weekly affair with the organization, is being carried out without any financial help from any external funding agency so far.

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