SFCAC Shopian Approves 47 Cases for Sponsorship

SHOPIAN FEBRUARY 20:_The Sponsorship and Foster Care Approval Committee, Shopian, in its second meeting, approved 47 cases for sponsorship under ‘Family based Non-Institutional Care’ component of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), thus taking total number of approved cases to 58. Pertinently the committee had already approved 11 such cases in it’s first meeting.

Present in the meeting were Mohammad Shafait, District Child Protection Officer (Chairperson SFCAC), Muzaffar Gaffar, Chairperson CWC (Member SFCAC), Incharge PO-NIC Shiekh Asifa (Member SFCAC) and Khurshid Yousaf, District Coordinator Human Welfare Voluntary Organisation (Member SFCAC).

The 47 approved cases include 2 cases of double orphan children (both parents not alive), 2 case where one or both of the parents are suffering from life threatening diseases, 37 cases of single orphan children (Either father or mother is not alive, 3 cases where parents are divorced and 14 cases where income of the family is less than Rs. 2000/- per month.

Giving details DCPO said these approved cases will be referred to State Level Selection-Cum-Oversight Committee (SCOC) for final sanction before release of payment. He said the quantum of sponsorship is Rs. 2000/= and the duration of sponsorship support will be decided on case to case basis by SFCAC and will not exceed three years except under exceptional circumstances.