About Loreto Rainbow Homes Programme

Loreto Rainbow Homes has been catering to 600+ young girl children across 6 homes, formerly lived on streets, a non custodial residential home providing them long term comprehensive care.

The Loreto Rainbow Homes programme secures the basic rights of the girls who formerly lived on the streets through comprehensive care i.e. guaranteed education, nutrition, clothing, health care, recreation, love and support to ensure their reintegration into mainstream society.

Features of the programme

I. It works through sharing of physical spaces in schools for residential care of street girl children.
II. It is highly scalable, carrying the potential to reach significant numbers of street girl children.
III. It seeks to provide comprehensive care to street girl children, i.e. enabling access to all rights of the child, education, shelter, nutrition, health and recreation.
IV. It works through voluntary, non-custodial, residential homes i.e. children makes an informed choice to leave the streets and parents retain contact with children.

About model

The Loreto Rainbow Homes (for girls) programme offers a solution that is both simple and cost-efficient: existing school buildings are converted into a home. The home provides a safe environment, food, love and attention, healthy care, social interaction and education. After a bridge course, the children go to a regular school. The integration into ‘mainstream or regular life’ therefore starts as soon as the children go to school. When they are 18-20 years old, they have completed their regular school, learned to live in a social structure, learned to become the owner of their life and future, and are able to participate in mainstream society.