Kutumba

Main activities are:

• Day Care Centers: Kutumba runs two Day Care Centers – Kutumba Day Care Center at Bangalore and Bhavya Day Care Center at the Jillela village.  (i) The Kutumba Center provides basic primary education with stimulating learning activities, social play, sports, and health & hygiene practices. It accommodates children in the age group of 3 to 6 years and provides them a mid-day meal, morning and afternoon snacks. They provide pick up and drop services also. The children, whose parents are daily wage workers are exposed to an environment which facilitates safety, hygiene, health and love. Their educational support helps these children to get admission in Government schools. In FY16, 24 children benefitted.  (ii) Bhavya Day Care Center provides care and safety to children while preparing them for regular school, once they are 5 years old. Key benefits of the center are prevention of early school dropouts and discouragement of child labour. Children learn action songs, nursery rhymes and numbers. The children are provided free meals, a pair of clothes and imparted value based education. The education is sponsored
• Residential Support: Kutumba’s residential center offers accommodation to physically challenged girls undergoing employability training at the Association of People with Disability. Accommodation, food and transport facilities to reach the training center are provided to 30 young women located in rural Karnataka and neighbouring states. Scope International conducts weekly English classes which helps the girls to clear their interviews successfully and get jobs. Coaching is provided in learning musical instruments like drums, casio and guitar. 
• Tailoring Training:  The course aims to enable the trainees to make their own clothes or generate an income by stitching clothes for neighbourhood communities.