Ramana Health & Educational Development Society started Child Labour Program for the welfare of child health & education. The project is aimed at addressing the Child Labor problem in India. The project encompasses a cluster of 10 villages in Kurnool district in Kurnool town. The area is rain fed and also houses some of the big industries.

The people living in this area work in farms, coffee estates, hotels, garages, fisheries, jaggery processing units or as workers in small scale industries for low wages without any incentives and other facilities. Adults are forced to migrate in search of employment to earn their bread.

The migration of their children with them generates dropouts from school. After dropping out of school, children are forced to work with their parents, some of them working in coffee plantations and bricks making, or as agricultural/domestic workers to supplement income for the family.

The project started with a 3 year plan and aimed at providing Non-formal education classes in Bridge school child labor center to motivate the children to get back to the formal schools. The money provided by Ministry of Labour & Employment, New
Delhi. Funds will be used to create an environment to educate the drop out children, enabling 25 children each year to join the main stream of society.

The Goals of this scheme are:

1. To rehabilitate children of migratory laborers or child laborers through education
2. Start a pilot program in agro/farming to achieve self-sustenance in 5-6 years & impart farming techniques to landowning migratory laborers
3. It is expected that mitigation of migratory laborer problems will remove the requirement of the current bridge school in the area.