Category: Children’s NGO
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Mumbai Mobile Creches: an NGO for children of construction workers
MUMBAI Mobile Creches is an NGO for children that was founded with a vision to create child-friendly construction sites that ensures the safety, health and education of every child whose parents toil in the construction industry. In Mumbai, where construction projects shape the skyline, a silent but impactful revolution has been taking place since 1973. […]
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Palna: a child welfare NGO giving abandoned babies a second chance at life
IN Delhi, there exists a child welfare NGO for the most vulnerable members of society – abandoned infants. Palna, an adoption center operated by the Delhi Council for Child Welfare, stands as a symbol of compassion and care, rescuing abandoned babies and providing them with a loving shelter until they find their forever homes. In […]
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SATHI: A friend for lost children at India’s railway stations
A child is unaware of the dangers that exist in the world around them. In the mind of a 10-year-old child, taking a quick solo ride on a train to the next town to look outside and enjoy the breeze shouldn’t be a reason to worry. But over 77,500 children in India went missing in […]
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How do we help put India’s railway children back on track?
THOUSANDS of children across the country have made railway platforms their homes, and they survive by begging, rag-picking or doing menial jobs. Many of these railway children end up in stations after fleeing their homes because of poverty, violence or other forms of abuse. But living on the platforms doesn’t mean that they are safe. […]
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Don’t let homeless children remain invisible
The streets are no place for their young lives to play out AT 13, Satender Sharma ran away from home to escape an abusive father. His father beat the entire family mercilessly and even killed his mother by hitting her head into a wall. To get away from a life of more abuse, a petrified […]
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5 NGOs championing human rights in India
ON December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – and since then the day has been marked as #HumanRightsDay. The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims “the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, […]
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Tribal children have the least access to food and education
LIKE many other tribal children, Sibani Wadaka was born prematurely and weighed only 1.4 kgs at birth. Her mother visited several district hospitals in Odisha to improve the infant’s health and increase her chances of survival. She was even kept under observation at the Christian Medical (CHB), Bissam Cuttack for 13 days but her condition […]
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Missed childhood vaccinations are a health risk to the community
Join our mission to protect vulnerable children from deadly diseases IF there is one thing that the ongoing pandemic has laid bare, it is how critical vaccination is. Scientists are speeding ahead to produce an effective vaccine for Covid-19 that has already claimed over one million lives worldwide. People in every corner of the globe […]
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How do we make digital learning the new normal for every child?
Online classes are a challenge without access to phones and data DIGITAL learning for young children is a challenge, period. But when the child belongs to a low-income group family or one that lives in an area with poor connectivity this becomes a real hurdle. And this has been the reality of millions of children […]