Project Sanmaan aims to enable children found begging on the streets to enjoy their right to wellbeing and dignity and break the intergenerational cycle of backwardness and begging in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Sanmaan’s interventions are currently in 3 communities – Ghansoli, Chembur and Sathe Nagar where we work with communities and families to prevent children to be pushed into beggary . This exercise of mapping the 3 communities aims to understand the communities in-depth – starting from their demographics, the existing resources and accessibility to them. The Community Mapping 2021 Document has captured the changes in the community and its demographics along with capturing interventions brought in by the team in the community from the previous mapping done in 2020.

The document captures the experiences of our counselor Ms. Shruti Chatterjee of the significance of the principle of individualization. It aims to help Social Case Workers to understand the principle of individualization while working with children within the juvenile justice system.

The importance ascribed to the Individual Care Plan comes from the recognition that every child must have a specific plan for her/his rehabilitation based on the case history, circumstances and individual needs of each child. These plans are to be prepared with the ultimate aim of the child being rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society. The overall objective of this training manual is to build the capacity of various stakeholders engaged with the juvenile justice system to design and understand how to deliver an Individual Care Plan as under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015.