Suryodaya Charitable Trust is a home which was established to provide residential care and education to 76 boys recently displaced by the anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, Orissa. The trust was created by a team of like-minded Christians who rallied together when thousands of Christians were driven out of their homes and communities and forced to live in refugee camps. A majority of the people chose to reconvert back to Hinduism to be able to return to their villages; however, a sizeable number of believers remain in the camps, waiting for the situation to revert to normalcy. This however may take years, and until then, these people have nowhere to go. Their children are most affected as they have lost access to education and have lost their homes and livelihood.
The goal of the Suryodaya Charitable Trust Home is to provide care and shelter to the boys displaced by the violence in Orissa.The older boys living in the home have been admitted to nearby schools while the remaining younger boys are being schooled within the facility. In addition to meeting the educational needs of the children, another necessary goal is to locate and reunite sibling and families that were separated during the persecution.
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Compulsory Education - 6 to 14 years
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Literacy - 73% (male); 48% (female)
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Religion - Hindu (80%), Muslim (14%),
Christian (2%), other (6%)
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India is located in Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan.
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Although India occupies only 2.4% of the world's land area, it supports over 15% of the world's population. Only China has a larger population.
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There are an estimated 35 million orphans (all of sub-Saharan Africa has 43 million). 9% of all children in India are orphans.
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No country can rival India’s children in need. Of India’s nearly 400 million under 18, over 70 million are child laborers, 10 million are bonded laborers (a form of slavery to pay off family debts), 13 million are homeless, 2 million are street children without families.
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There is widespread child abuse, and there is a deficit of 40 million girls because of female feticide — over 20,000 ultrasound clinics thrive on this illegal practice. There are 575,000 child prostitutes and there is a massive trade in Bangladeshi and Nepali girls sold into prostitution.
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Malnutrition affects nearly half of all children under age five.
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The adult literacy rate has a wide discrepancy between males – 73%, and females – 48% (2000-2004).
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Only 59 percent of boys and 47 percent of girls attend Secondary school (1996-2005).
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AIDS has spread rapidly in India and some estimates have said that by 2020 there could be 200 million carrying HIV.
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