Street and Working Children live and work in extremely unhygienic conditions making them prone to severe skin conditions like scabies. At the same time, as these children live and work on the streets they are susceptible to physical injuries, which often left untreated leads to impairment of body parts. One can see a high incidence of substance use among the children and they are also susceptible to sexually transmitted infections thereby making them fall in the high-risk category of people who could be exposed to HIV. Thus to reduce the problems faced by children and at the same time also create awareness amongst them about hygiene and nutrition, the health care programme was started by Butterflies in 1989.
In 2007, Butterflies initiated Health Post, which is primarily a treatment centre as well as a convalescence place with beds available for street and working children who though discharged from hospitals still require medical care and assistance. Strategically located near the New Delhi Railway Station, which is one of our contact points, the health post also provides counseling service to children.
Butterflies Health Post on a regular basis receives cases of children who are either suffering from severe illness or are recuperating from a serious accident. These are children who are our future and deserve to get proper medical attention and live a healthy life.
To give a better, secured and healthy future to these marginalized children, we have initiated Emergency Medical Fund called SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE FUND that would look into the medical needs of children and provide them with proper treatments. Some time the call is to save a child's life – an expensive treatment or surgery which is unaffordable.
It is for at these times that we look up to YOU as it is you who can make a difference to their lives by gifting them good health, thereby becoming a partner in the process of the recovery of marginalized vulnerable children.
Following are the profile of children needing immediate medical attention
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Donations can be made in two easy ways
a) By Demand Draft/Cheque payable in the name of "Butterflies" b) By Bank transfer to "Butterflies"
A/c No. 9009 201 0100600 for Indian Currency
A/c No. 9009 201 0086034 (FCRA) for foreign currency
Swift Code SYNB IN BB 179
Beneficiary Bank: Branch of Syndicate Bank, Sector V, R.K.Puram, New Delhi, India.
All donations to Butterflies are exempted from Income Tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act.
