Educate, enable and empower future leaders: A model for community development through the child sponsorship program

Title

Educate, enable and empower future leaders: A model for community development through the child sponsorship program

Creator

Paul V.; Cherian R.M.

Description

The Child Sponsorship Program is an attempt by development organizations to reinstate the rights of a child to education, focusing on the overall well-being of a child and the community. The Sustainable Development Goals view Child Sponsorship Program as a tool for contributing towards development goals and targets. While the conventional models of the Child Sponsorship Program focused on the scholastic performance of children up to the elementary level, several progressive sponsorship programs aim at the whole personal development of the children and their community by ensuring community participation and a development-based approach targeting education, livelihood, empowerment, etc. This program channelized by the Centre for Social Action (CSA), CHRIST (Deemed to be) University), Bengaluru, is a child development program that engages with the goals of holistic development of the child and community development through the Child Sponsorship Program in two urban slum communities in Bengaluru. The research aims to study the change brought in the indicators, such as education, behaviour and attitude change, leadership and their holistic development, by the program. It also intends to assess the impact of the program on the development of the family, community and participation of the community members in the academic development of children. The study follows a qualitative study employing in-depth interviewing and Focused Group Discussions with parents and child participants of the communities where the Child Sponsorship Program is implemented. The data is analyzed through qualitative and quantitative software. 2024 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Source

Models for Social Responsibility Action by Higher Education Institutions, pp. 21-48.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Subject

Child development program; Child sponsorship; Community development; Community participation; Education; Holistic development

Coverage

Paul V., Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Cherian R.M., Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 979-889113251-1; 979-889113097-5

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85183085203&partnerID=40&md5=32c600fa4f0610334040a7e2f19fdb82