Zamung Kor (home for street children) is a model institute for street children launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aimed at rehabilitation and ensuring sustainable solutions for street children. The project envisages creating a society where children can enjoy their rights without any discrimination and deprivation. Street children will be enrolled at Zamung Kor on a phase-wise basis through an “in and out” policy while the 447 million-project will start working in January 2016 with the accommodation facilities for 1,000 children.
Zamung Kor will provide boarding, schooling, technical education, counselling, recreation and grants to street children. It will also provide rehabilitation to street children who live with their parents or relatives at night and those living in jails with convicted mothers will also be made beneficiary of the welfare programme. Given the facilities Zamung Kor will provide, these children will undoubtedly become the ‘state children’ instead of ‘street children’. The unofficial data suggests that there are 25,000 street children in Peshawar alone, so the project would not be able to succor the whole and the provincial government should set up more Zamung Kors in near future.
AHMED BILAL
Lahore