Programmes and initiatives

Tabitha Home: A Child Care Institute/Children Home

Tabitha Home is a childcare institution majorly catering to children infected and affected by HIV/AIDs. The home celebrated the successful completion of its 13th-year service to this marginalized group of people on the 19th of August 2022. While the mother organization of Tabitha Home- NSCP, “Networking Service for community participation” has been in the field of HIV/AIDs since 1996, Tabitha Home came into existence as a program under the organization focusing solely on children on the 19th of August, 2009. Tabitha Home today resides at the outskirt of the town under the bosom of God-gifted nature surrounded by mesmerizing landscape, clean air, and safe water

Today, Tabitha Home is a home for 49 children all either Infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. 23 of the children are infected by HIV/AIDs and are currently under ART medication while 26 of them are children without parents plagued by the HIV/AIDs disease.

Tabitha Home focuses on the overall well-being of the children irrespective of caste, creed, and religion and is home housing children from all corners and districts of the state. The home puts the education and literacy of all the children at the forefront by availing quality education by admitting them to private schools namely “Christ Jyoti School-Mantripukhri ” and providing private tutors through qualified professionals. As an institution mainly providing care and shelter to children with more vulnerable immune systems due to the virus, Tabitha Home lays serious emphasis on the diet and nutrition of the children by following a strict balanced diet and availing nutritional supplements, vitamins, medicines, etc. Tabitha Home is a safe haven for the children where the focus reaches far beyond the physical aspect but also mental and spiritual health where values and virtues to become a fit citizen of the country are being inculcated. The home functions guided by the principle of “Child’s right” prioritizing the “interest and benefits of the child” with dedicated medical check-ups, ample recreational activities, future prospective works such as Vocational training, soft skills, and life skills as well as money management skills, etc. The children’s home raises all the children blanketed with familial practices and the feeling of belongingness and inculcates in them skills and strength to face social discrimination and stigmatization. All in all, Tabitha Home envisions being a home away from home for all the children it is entrusted with.

TABITHA CHILDREN HOME: GIRL’S HOME, with a Special Unit for HIV/AIDS)

NSCP addresses the need of children born to HIV infected parents, orphans related to the disease (HIV/AIDS) and other vulnerable children. After years of helping them, eventually we have decided for a Family based Children Home. Under the caption of “Tabitha Children Home” it came into existence on 23rd August 2008. There are 53 inmates at present from various family backgrounds .The main objective is to impart proper education, instill a vision of hope to become a good citizen of the country, and provide them not only with basic health care but also extensive medical treatment, food and nutrition, clothing etc.

We, at Tabitha, aspire to build a  multi-ethnic family,  across the country, especially from remote boarder villages and most marginalized sections, bound together by a common feeling of abandonment and being ostracized. At present there are 32 children out of which 50% are on ART medication. The beauty of Diversity and unity of Tabitha are from Rongmei- Kabui, Anal, Metei, Tangkhul, Kuki, kom and Jharkhand (Adivasi). Three more ART orphans are to be added by the first week of January in the coming year 2020 increasing to 36 inmates.

QUALITY EDUCATION

We can proudly claim that Tabitha Home is one of the Homes where all the inmates are receiving quality education by sending them to reputed School, (Christ Jyoti, Mantripukhri)  of the best educational set up which is in the race among the well- known institutions in Manipur.

Besides, they are provided with qualified tutors for Maths, Science, and other important subjects.

Tabitha Children Home is a self-sustaining, charitable service institution by choice since its inception. Our means of income generation activities such as Piggery, Floriculture, handicrafts, Catering Service, and other event managements and all the proceeds goes to the Children Home. \

List of children in the CCI (Present)

Expenditure of a child for the period of March 2023- February 2024 Total number of students- 50

Non-recurring expenditure

Admission fees

Rs. 6,600/-

Uniforms

RS.5,125/-

Textbook

Rs. 2500/-

Computer Fees

Rs. 800/-

Total

Rs. 15,025/-

Recurring expenses

Monthly fees

Rs. 850/-

Notebooks

Rs. 1000/-

Stationaries

Rs. 200/-

School supplies

Rs. 100/-

Total (one month)

Rs. 2,150 /-  12 = 25,800

Dine-in expenses

Breakfast

Food (lunch and dinner )

Breakfast and refreshment , school tiffin etc.

Total (one month)

Rs 1500 /-  12 = 18,000

Toiletries ( Monthly Expenditure )

Cinthol soap

Rs. 50 x 12=600

Surf and detergent

Rs. 75 x 12= 900

Tooth brush

Rs. 20 x  12=240

Tooth paste 50gm

Rs. 20 x 12-=240

Sanitary Napkins (12 pads)

Rs. 80 x 12=960

Body and skin care

Rs. 50 x 12 = 600

Total

Rs. 295/-  12= 3,540 /-

Total Budget for one month

Non- recurring budget

Rs. 15,025

Recurring Budget

Rs. 2,150/-

Mess fee

Rs . 1,500/-

Toiletries

Rs. 295/-

Grand Total

Rs. 18,970/-

Total expenses of a child for 12 months

Non- recurring budget

Rs. 15,025

Recurring Budget

Rs. 25,800

Mess fee

Rs . 18,00

Toiletries

Rs. 3,540

Grand Total

Rs. 22,215/-

Budget for 50 children for 1 year = Rs. 22,215 X 50 children = Rs. 1,11,O75/-

Annual Health Camp

In the absence of the Health & Medical facilities in the rural areas, almost all the Hill Districts of Manipur, except Churachandpur-southern district of Manipur. We are compelled to take initiative for health care for the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). An urgent need arises to mobilize those patients living in the remote village to  bring them  down to Imphal State Capital for accessibility of  health facilities.

The main reasons for the Medical/Health Camps were:

Annual health Camp

15th December 2005

18

13th- 16th October 2006

104

23rd-25th November 2007

77

6th-10th October 2008

123

1st-5th October 2009

130

1st-4th October 2010

86

1st-4th October 2011

153

1st-4th October 2012

149

1st-5th October 2013

144

26th-29th October 2015

214

OUR NETWORKING & REFERRAL SERVICES:

NSCP has been providing  health services such as  referral and network  with service institutions such as JNIMS, RIMS, PHC/PHSC and other private establishments or various departments and organization  for the people living at the border villages and remote areas where there is no proper Communication – Roads Transportations , Internet connectivity, Health and Education setups etc

At the same time, I will closely network with state Enforcement agencies and concern department for better cooperation and mutual understanding. We have healthy rapport with the existing service organization/institutions and with like minded organizations at the State, Regional, National and International community.

We response according to the needs of the patients, for instance, when a women patient is suffering with their related complain, we referred her to gynecologist and likewise, ENT, Medicine, Eye Specialist, Orthologist,Neurologist,

One of the key problems for the villagers is “ Language barrier” , many of the rural people living in the far flung areas/border villages can not understand, Manipur, Hindi and English  and also, they do not know  whom to go, which Doctor/Specialist/Department, where to they work, which  Hospitals or office etc.

That is the reason, referrer and network service is very vital for them and thus NSCP availing service for them become a channel of blessing to those who are in need of it.

According to our data/record, the following persons were benefited from it:

2011 -25

2012- 25

2012- 40

2013- 48
2014- 68
2015- 59
2016- 88
2017- 37
2018- 89
2019- 120
2020 - 97
2021- 200

the most crucial covid days in India, where we rendered our best service till 2023.

2022- 333
2023- 356