Yes, there is lot of floating population in the silicon city. Professionals from IT, Management, Science, Arts, Communications, Electricians, Plumbers, Potters, Artists, Masons name any and you find them. The elite class though come in bulk they are capable to manage themselves with their very fair income. The problems arises when the people who migrate in search of their livelihood who earn on a daily wage basis. I'm talking about the people behind the beautiful buildings - The Masons. They work harder to get some extra money than their daily wage. The fact is harder, they end up staying with lower facilities than the basic one's. They come all along with their family to a new place, new city, new environment and work with new people. Yet they experience hard life struggling to get two proper meals a day. Just observe when we plan for a tour to a new place which we never visited before we explore the culture, people, food, art, craft and the famous things of that place. But Masons, come with only one intention of earning money but at the end they do not as much as they could have. As their earning roughly would be Rs.4800/- pm which is Rs.160 per day. The expenses that they have to manage in this highly inflated city is difficult.
All the difficulties apart. The major chunk of the problem lies with the children who migrate along with their parents. These innocents have to pay by leaving their education behind in order to compensate the survival and living of the family and it's members. There are organisations coming up with certain support to this community. And I feel happy to be a part of such process. The reason being you see the happiness in the eyes of these kids for having given them a note book and a pencil and a teacher to teach. They welcome and accept everyone with the same warmth and love. I could see lot of willingness in them to make an attempt to study and come up in life. I could see the hope they had on the people supporting and help them study. I could see the interest to study. The talent was very much visible. When I learnt that there are people and organisations who care about this community I was overwhelmed.
Today, I happened to learn about the organisation called Sampark, an NGO which is involved in building women SHG's basically at Koppal.
Sampark works with 8000 families in Koppal district where it works with women and children in field of education, health, micro enterprise and micro finance.
In Bangalore Sampark works with migrants workers in construction sector. Sampark runs crèches for children of migrant construction workers. Sampark started its Workers Resource Centre in Kaikondrahalli which is going to going to work with 5000 construction workers in next three years through right based education empower workers to avail their rights.
There are laws which these people are unaware of. It's very obvious, we being educated and having access to all the information lack the knowledge. Sampark is making all it's efforts to bridge this gap. They are getting these Masons get registered to avail all the facilities that they are entitled to. Issues like accidents at the work place, education support for their children, prevent them from the exploitation in working hours, basic medical facilities etc.,
" Laws are existing, they don't walk up to you. You need to recognize what are the benefits available to you and run behind them. Else they just remain on paper"
A wonderful initiative by Sampark in taking these available facilities to the audience eligible and more importantly has every RIGHT to avail the same.
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