VIDIYAL NEWS
01.05.2025 Grama Sabai Meetings at 10 Villages
11.05.2025 Image Media Club: Short Film Festival
11.05.2025 Mother’s Day Celebration at all Centres
12.05.2025 to 16.05.2025 Life Skill Education: Workshop on Problem Solving and Decision Making
18.05.2025 Thoorihai: Drawing Forum
18.05.2025 Athirvuhal Forum: Releasing ‘Vidiyal Paravaihal’ (Vidiyal Birds) Hand written Magazine
20.05.2025 & 21.05.2025 Indoor Makeshift Tent Pitching and Camping Activities
22.05.2025 to 25.05.2025 6th National Children’s Consultation at Lady Doak College, Madurai
24.05.2025 A Day in Bus Library – Melavasal 1 & 2 Centres
26.05.2025 Quarterly Trainings
27.05.2025 to 29.05.2025 Work Camp at Karuvelampatti, a Tribal hamlet in the Kodaikanal Hill Range
27.05.2025 to 29.05.2025 Quarterly Training CPCRP Beginner -Training on Sand Play Primary – Training on Storytelling Junior – Training on Healthy Food Habits Intermediate & Senior – Workshop on Gender Sensitization
31.05.2025 Workshop on Career Guidance

JUVENILE JUSTICE

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Sakthi-Vidiyal is committed for the cause of ensuring justice for children and safeguarding their rights.

Recognition under the Juvenile Justice system
In the year 2004, Sakthi – Vidiyal was recognized under section 37 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act 2000 to run the Reception Home to house children in need of care and protection. This home has a capacity for 50 children.  Boys and girls are housed in separate campuses.

 

This was an honour as well a wonderful opportunity to serve those children coming under the purview of Juvenile Justice System in India. Street children, vagabonds, runaway children, missing children, begging children, and abandoned children are brought to us for care and protection. Children from varied backgrounds were sent to us by Police, Childline, various courts including the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) and the Madurai district administration for care and protection. Mentally retarded children who are thrown on the streets and infants with special needs are also admitted for specialised care.  These children are placed in our reception home only by an order from the Child Welfare Committee.

 

The Child Welfare Committee functions in our premises and initiates the process of rehabilitation for the children brought under the Juvenile Justice system. We do an assessment of the needs of these children; provide them with basic needs and counselling immediately after admitting them in the home. A probation officer is appointed by the Government who attempts to trace their backgrounds and whereabouts and a rehabilitation plan is made for each child. A few children are reunited with their families whereas some children go into institutional care for long term rehabilitation. These children are given extra care since their traumatic experiences haunt them at times. So far we have done 822 home placements (Boys 518 and Girls 304) and 256 institutional placements (Boys 164 and Girls 92).