JAMIAT CHILDREN VILLAGE COMPLEX

(MANAGED BY: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind)

P.O. Box: 20, Anjar-Bhuj Highway, PIN-370110

Kutch, Gujarat

02836-245747

 

 

 

Promises Fulfilled...

 

Ø  JAMIAT CHILDREN VILLAGE (96 Boyes & Girls)

Ø  JAMIAT COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Ø  JAMIAT MAHILA PTC COLLEGE (38 Students)

Ø  JAMIAT WOMEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER

Ø  MADANI GIRLS HOSTEL

Ø  HAJI PEER ZAKRIYA ENGLISH MEDIUM PRIMARY SCHOOL (360 Students)

Ø  HAJI PEER ZAKRIYA GUJARATI MEDIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL (350 Students)

Ø  SCHOOL BUS - 2

On January 26^th 2001, a devastating earthquake orphaned thousands. They were still trying to find their feet when the state plunged into a cauldron of communal violence on 28^th February 2002. Once again, hundreds of children lost their parents and the only safe shelters they knew in their short life. As the wounds just had begun to heal major parts of Gujarat were inundated by flood in June 2005 and nature’s fury took its heavy toll.

Following the earthquake, as a part of its massive drive to provide relief and rehabilitation, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind decided to establish Jamiat Children Village at Anjar, Kutch.

How The Dream Village was translated into reality:

It was at Khatri Chowk in Anjar that 400 school children were buried alive with the national tricolour while taking part in the Republic Day parade on 26^th January 2001. Commemorating the little innocent valiant souls Jamiat resolved to establish a children village nearby as an everlasting memorial to Man’s indefatigable spirit to overcome life’s tragedy with complete faith and hopefulness. While supervising relief to the survivors Mahmood Madani, the young General Secretary of JUH realised that the food, clothing and the shelters could hardly bring the traumatised, scarred minds and bruised hearts back to normalcy. The inconsolable victims especially the women and the young ones needed loving care and homely ambiance more than the survival kits. The idea of restoration of normal family structure full of love, compassion, with special healing touch and emphasis on all out development, physical, moral and spiritual led him to search for a suitable sight for establishing a Children Village rather than an orphanage or shelter for the destitute on the model of S.O.S, a concept unheard of among Muslim philanthropist organizations.

Where is will there is way was once more proved right when Navin Chandra Bhatia came forward with the most generous offer to donate 13 acres plot out of his 82 acres green orchard located at a distance of about 3 kilometres from Anjar township on Bhuj-Anjar Highway for the noblest humanitarian cause crossing all barriers of caste creed and religion. And thus the dream village came into being and has grown since then into a modern residential educational complex set into beautifully landscaped sylvan green surroundings lined with palm trees and mango groves.

 

The mission of the village is to provide orphans and homeless Children & women a home, family, education and build a strong foundation for an independent secure life while playing its role as a developmental agency for eradication of poverty, illiteracy, educational and social backwardness of the most vulnerable and weakest sections of society i.e. women and children in one of India’s most backward district of Kutch through in-campus educational and vocational training or community outreach programs.  Therefore the village has been conceived and planned as an integrated development agency and its various components listed below are designed to achieve this goal.