HOW ISCO PROGRAM WORKS

1. To open a program area, ISCO's project officer will conduct a survey and gather information about the selected slum area to find out information about their size, population, social structure, economic conditions, customs and the tendency of children to go to the street or become child laborers.
   
   
2. Find information about access to educational institutions, including public and private schools, operating near the prospective program areas, to enable children to go to school near their homes and continue up to high school level.
   
   
3. Evaluate and choose an area to be adopted as an ISCO formal program area. The area chosen should be big enough to offer a critical mass in terms of number of families which can be helped in order to make an impact on the community, as the number of children receiving educational support from ISCO will be large enough.
   
   
4. Carry out a mapping of the area (in terms of economic conditions, support from parents, children's’ enthusiasm about school); establish relationships with local formal and informal leaders, parents of the prospective children and the local educational institutions, and then introduce ISCO's programs to the community.
   
   
5. Register the children to receive ISCO's scholarship with the approval of their parents, and build and strengthen relationships with the families to obtain their commitment to the program.
   
   
6. Choose the educational institutions that the children will attend and register the children at their respective schools. By this stage, full cooperation from the principals and teachers should be evident.
   
   
7. Monitor each child's educational and social development, and provide support for the children's’ psychological development. This includes preventing the children going to the street.
   
   
8. Establish Activity Houses to provide the children with learning and playing facilities, and to provide a safe and beneficial alternative to the streets.
   
   
9. Perform home visits to the children to monitor the family’s support and home situation of the children.
   
   
10. Conduct Health and Nutrition programs, when health and nutritional problems have become apparent and hindered the children from attending schools.
    
    
11. Conduct Child Protection and Right Advocacy program, or other programs that are in-line with ISCO’s vision and mission. At this stage, ISCO will maintain relationships with the local communities in the program areas to ensure the success and continuity of the program.
    

The following time schedule gives an overview of ISCO’s annual plan of activities: