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The Family India has been working in the field of prison reform since 1993. Over the years, we have provided educational support to the children of women prisoners, done character education programmes for the teenaged prison inmates and also conducted social forestry programmes. We have assisted the de-addiction programme for inmates involved in substances abuse and have also conducted training and stress management programmes for the prison warders.

The Family India provides counselling services to the women inmates and helps them to develop a positive focus for their lives through the

The focus behind these programmes is to broaden the children’s horizons, create within them a greater awareness of the normal world, prepare them for life outside the prison, and, most importantly, to help them grow socially, emotionally and scholastically.
As these children are all under the age of 5, we have adopted the “edutainment” or the “have fun while you learn” approach with them. We do all the things with these children that a Montessori playschool would do with their pre-school aged children. Our activities include art classes, flashcards and object recognition, simple English, flannelgraph stories, showing them educational videos, music sessions, games, hand-painting and ballooning and educational excursions.

We regularly arrange for clothing and school uniforms for the children.

Many prison inmates suffer from low self-esteem, very poor human relations skills as well as negative and destructive habits, all of which prevent them from leading useful and happy lives. Our programmes focus on helping teenagers in prison to find a positive direction and focus in their lives and to equip them to lead productive lives once they come out of prison.

A person’s success in life depends largely on how well he is able to interact with other human beings, his attitudes towards life’s challenges and his ability to tackle them positively and his work habits.

If these three factors are present in an inmate’s life, they will help him to find a positive niche in the world regardless of his negative background. We therefore focus on equipping inmates of Tihar Prison to stand on their own feet by giving them training in the area of human relations skills, developing positive attitudes towards life, and overcoming bad and self-destructive habits and instead, building good habits.

Prison staff and administration arguably have one of the most stressful jobs in the world. In order to provide them with the psychological and emotional tools needed to keep stress at bay in their lives, and ultimately improve the environment in prison, we conduct special seminars on stress management for prison staff. Besides that, we also do training programmes on Good Work Ethics, Communication Skills, Time Management and Adopting positive attitudes in negative circumstances