Building a new project House

Children & youth

May 29

Who: Pushkar Children Trust

What: Building a new project House

Where: Pushkar, India

Project period: 2023-2024

Web: Pushkar Children Trust

We are building a Project House to provide After School Programs for underprivileged children of the city of Pushkar, India. Giving the children a chance of a better future by obtaining an education as well as providing the framework for a safe upbringing.

Goal of the project

Buliding a new Project House to continue the organizations work to ensure an educational and safe upbringing for the underprivileged children in Pushkar, India.

The project

Pushkar Children Trust is a Danish/Indian NGO establish in 2013 by the medical student Trine Obel. We are a local project founded to help some of India’s most vulnerable children located in the city Pushkar in Rajasthan India. The NGO is today run by the Danish doctor Trine Obel and the Norwegian doctor Ellisiv Nyre Bergmann in collaboration with a local Indian team, led by Rakesh Nat. The children and their families live under extremely poor conditions. Most of the families live in tents in an established camp on the outskirts of the city. In the camp there is neither water nor electricity, and the sanitation are poor. The families earn money by collecting plastic bottles, making and selling hay horses and playing drums for weddings and festivals.

Through the work of our NGO we enable the children to attend school, as well as providing food, healthcare and emotional and educational support. We currently have more than 75 children enrolled in our program.

Since Pushkar Children Trust was founded, it has been important for Trine and Ellisiv that the children are not only sent to school during the day but also have a space to live out the other fundamental elements of childhood.

Our Project House has provided the framework for this with our After School Programs. In the Project House, the children are served a healthy meal every day and they are given a space to play and be together with other children their age. A teacher helps with homework, which their family members are not able to help with, and the children’s families receive monthly food support.

Since 2013 we have been hosting our After School Programs in various rented premises. However due to increasing rental prices, we have not been able to pay the rent for the past year, and the children have unfortunately not been offered After School Programs. Therefore, we know several of the children end up being put to work by their families and are declining in school performances as well as health and nutritional status.

Luckily, we have been gifted a piece of land near the school and we are now ready to build a new Project House. A Project House where we can continue the organizations work to ensure an educational and safe upbringing. We’ve had our friend and architect Moritz Mayer make some drawings of our dream house, and now our dream can come true!