18 Million +
Vulnerable Children
Child Labour
Homelessness
Begging
Loneliness
Abuse
Addiction
RHP is a pan India care program providing comprehensive care to children in highly vulnerable situations.
These children were/are abandoned, have run away from violent and abusive situations, have grown up in violence, are victims of sexual, physical and mental abuse, or children of sex workers and manual scavengers in rural and urban India.
Rainbow Homes rescues these children from a life of uncertainty, helplessness and impending criminalisation through its residential and community-based care. RHP aims to enable these children to live a dignified & independent life with a job, housing and social network.
Since 2002, RHP has reached out to over 12000 street children. The Program is currently extending care to nearly 5601 children and young adults by running 48 Residential Homes, 22 Community-based Rainbow Community Centres, and through The Futures Program in ten cities of India – Anantapur, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Patna, Pune and Ranchi respectively.
Our Reach
What makes us different
Working with Public Systems
- Homes, caring spaces and community centres are located in government schools or safe public spaces.
- A credible collaboration with government, civil society, public institutions and individuals.
- Children attend government schools in the vicinity and often where the homes are located, thereby increasing pupil strength.
Open, voluntary and non-custodial
- Children decide to leave the streets and join the Rainbow Homes.
- Open Hearts, Open Gates - where children live in a non-threatening/controlled environment.
- They are not guarded or locked.
Open, voluntary and non-custodial
- Children decide to leave the streets and join the Rainbow Homes.
- Open Hearts, Open Gates - where children live in a non-threatening/controlled environment.
- They are not guarded or locked.
Child-centric
- These community and child-centric comprehensive caring models follow Child Rights, UN Convention on Child Rights, RTE (Right to Education), SMSA (Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan) and childcare protocols. The JJ licensed homes follow JJ Act 2015
- Children have a full say in their development journey via child participatory exercise in the form of Bal Sabha (child meets), committees, and Child Participatory Reviews.
Accountable & Transparent
- All homes undergo annual financial, legal, childcare safety and Program audits.
- Individual child profiles with a real-time database MIS (Rainbow Online Reporting) and data-driven KPIs track their growth and program impact.
- Programmatic visits, monitoring and reviews by internal teams and outside stakeholders.
Accountable & Transparent
- All homes undergo annual financial, legal, childcare safety and Program audits.
- Individual child profiles with a real-time database MIS (Rainbow Online Reporting) and data-driven KPIs track their growth and program impact.
- Programmatic visits, monitoring and reviews by internal teams and outside stakeholders.
Our Endorsements
SSA
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan framework for implementation. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Caring for the children in street situations: Good practices and approaches. A study by Save the Children
TISS
Rainbow Homes, Sunbursts in the Lives of the Vulnerable Girls: A Study by Tata Institute of Social Sciences
UNICEF
Comprehensive Care and Protection of the Street and Homeless Children: A Study by Anita Kaul, supported by UNICEF