ChildFund India

Empowers marginalized children through collaboration with community leaders, local administrators, and government support, reaching them.

  • Bronze Certified 2023
  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    New Delhi, Karnataka

  • Since

    1951

ChildFund India is a child-focused development organization, working in 123 districts across 14 states. Through our programs, we reach to children fro Read morem the most marginalized communities with support from community leaders, local administrators and organizations and the government. Annually, we reach to at least 4.7 million children and their families through holistic, innovative and sustainable interventions. These interventions, based on health, nutrition, education, livelihood, gender and child protection, are created alongside communities and other stakeholders to ensure sustainability and longevity of programs. Largely, we work towards ensuring that children thrive in safe and conducive environment and are enabled to break free of the vicious cycle of generational poverty.


Issue

Health : Child health is a multifaceted issue, which is predominantly linked to a mother’s health conditions, her access to safe delivery conditions, the socio-economic status of the family and the healthcare system. ChildFund India supports community-based healthcare to address underserved children’s health needs from infancy to young adulthood, along with prenatal care and maternal health. For this, our health experts and dedicated staff, together, create smart solutions that adapt to the unique health challenges of communities across the country to ensure good health of children, adults and communities. ChildFund India’s health interventions are implemented in 60 districts in 14 states. Education : ChildFund India’s educational interventions focus on ensuring quality education, improving enrolment and reducing drop-out rates among the most disadvantaged children. We believe that for children who belong to marginalized communities, access to education would change their lifetime of exclusion to becoming an active member of society. In this regard, we work towards improving the learning abilities of children between the ages of 3 and 18 years. We develop their critical thinking abilities and make them sensitive human beings by including age-appropriate learning outcomes and socio-emotional learning skills in our approach. Livelihood: ChildFund India’s life cycle approach starts from a child’s conception and continues till a healthy, educated child becomes a self-reliant, financially secure young adult who contributes actively to the family, community and society. Our livelihood programs in sync with the changing market needs and opportunities strive to prepare the youth work ready through technical and vocational training. We work on building their life skills involving personal competencies, problem-solving and managing conflicts, effective habits, entrepreneurship, and related skills for long-term success in the workplace. The goal of this program is to support the youth to achieve improved economic, physical and social well-being, and become the catalysts for positive change in their family, community, and the country. Furthermore, we support women and farmers in gaining livelihood through various interventions focusing on empowerment, employment and entrepreneurship. Child Protection : ChildFund India works towards ensuring that all children live in protective and enabling environment, free from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Apart from an absolute intervention, Child protection is intrinsically woven into all our interventions as we believe that abuse of any sort threatens a child’s health, learning opportunities and other development areas. To protect children, we support families to ensure that their children are nurtured in safe environment, we educate communities about children’s need for protection and we empower children to understand and exercise their right to protection and raise their voice against violence. Disaster Risk Management The most vulnerable during disasters are the marginalized communities with children receiving a disproportionate share of the burden. ChildFund India’s Disaster Risk Management aims to reduce vulnerability and build community-level resilience with children’s leadership so that children remain safe and protected. Thus, we work with children, communities, organizations, local governance, and government to save lives in emergencies and reduce disaster risks in a systematic approach with the child-centered lens.


Action

ChildFund India works towards ensuring that children from the most marginalized sections of the society become able, confident, empathetic and responsible adults. For over seven decades, we have been committed to address critical issues related to children’s holistic development by engaging key stakeholders including families, communities, schools, government, and children. We provide comprehensive support to children through interventions that integrate health, nutrition, gender, education, livelihoods and child protection.

Impact

Health Impact in financial year 2021 • Number of Early Childhood Development/Anganwadi centers – 2,000 • Number of mothers' groups created – 500 (with 4,000 members) • Number of water ATMs installed – 18 • Sexual and Reproductive Health Education promoted – 1,00,000+ adolescents’ • Sexual and Reproductive Health Information (Jigyasa) centers being operated – 800 • Number of adolescents’ groups created – 800 (with 10,000 members) Education Impact in financial year 2021 • Number of smart classrooms – 10 • Number of school & community libraries – 216 • Number of schools we are working with – 310 • Number of community-based learning centers and neighborhood classes – 438 • Number of art corners in Government schools – 29 (used by 45 schools) Livelihoods Impact in financial year 2021 • Number of youth clubs – 850 (with 10,000+ members) • E-saksham centers – 3 (with 415 members) • Number of women entrepreneurs – 1,200+ • Number of SHGs – 1,300+ (with 16,000+ members) Child Protection Impact in financial year 2021 • Number of Village Level Child Protection Committees – nearly 700 (with over 6,000 members) • Number of children’s clubs – nearly 500 (with approx. 6,000 members) Disaster Risk Management Impact in financial year 2021 • Total number of disasters responded to – 12 • Number of child-centered spaces established – 55 • Number of ICDS/schools with safety programs – 250 • Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction Programs created in – 49 villages COVID Response Impact in financial year 2021 • Number of Health Centre supported – 57 (Benefiting 140,41,063 people) • Number of child-friendly COVID care centres – 36 • Number of medical equipments – 21,300 (benefiting 25,967 people) • Number of medical essential materials to health workers – 39,565 (benefiting 3,50,049 people) • Food baskets distributed – 38,468 (benefiting 1,65,994 people) • Hygiene kits distributed – 53,201 (benefiting 2,01,638 people) • Awareness activities reaching – 27,79,985 people • Facilitated vaccination – 6,87,462 people • Livelihoods support benefitted – 37,000+ people • Educational support – 1,28,000+ children & parents to continue coping and learning

Programs

  • Education Programmes

    To provide quality education to children, ChildFund India works on its PENCIL(Protective, Effective N Context-based Initiation of Learning) programme. This programme while focusing on academics also strives to impart socio-emotional skills to the children.

    The learning happens through multi-lingual channels, making available quality children's literature, conducting bridge classes for school drop-outs and introducing smart classes enabling effective STEM education.

  • Livelihood Programmes

    ChildFund India focuses on the 3E’s of employment, entrepreneurship and empowerment of youth to enable productive livelihoods. Through its Lifeskills and Daksh initiatives, it provides functional knowledge and training in employable skills to underprivileged youth. It encourages youth to take up alternative trades like agriculture, animal husbandry, poultry farming, and other micro-enterprises to generate income.

    Its Youth Fellowship initiative empowers youth to come forward and implement solutions to problems afflicting their local communities and EMPOWER works towards empowering local village institutions and strengthening local governance systems.

  • Disaster Risk Management Programmes

    ChildFund India’s disaster risk management programme focuses on saving lives in crisis situations. Its efforts are directed at minimizing the risks due to disaster, the worst sufferers of which are children. The organisation takes up initiatives to introduce safe school planning and involve children in transforming their schools and surroundings into safety zones.

    It operates child-centred responses to disasters providing essentials and ensuring the continuity of WASH facilities, distributing educational material to help affected children re-initiate studies and helping farmers through informing about climate-resilient crops and better crop management methods to aid in post-disaster recovery.

  • Health Programmes

    Its health programmes focus on mother and child nutrition through MACHAN(Mother And Child Health And Nutrition) and adolescent sexual and reproductive rights through Garima. It partners with Government agencies, experts and local partners to ensure that every child has access to good health, nutrition and safety.

    It links mothers and children to Government welfare schemes, supports the implementation of WASH through installing water purification units, creates awareness and supports child nutrition and helps HIV-infected children by providing care and awareness generation.

    Its Garima programme implements community-based interventions to make adolescents aware of their reproductive and sexual rights through counselling sessions, health services and proper menstrual hygiene management.

Impact Metrics

  • Health

    Program Name

    Mother and Child Health and Nutrition

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 650000
    • 2020-21 800000
    • 2021-22 1100000
  • Education

    Program Name

    Protective, Effective N Context - based Initiation of Learning

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 600000
    • 2020-21 840000
    • 2021-22 940000
  • Livelihood

    Program Name

    Employment, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment for youth and woman

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 900000
  • Child Protection

    Program Name

    Child Protection Program

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 1100000
  • Disaster Risk Management

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 100000

Leadership Team

  • Chandrashekhar Pandey

    Director - Programme Implementation

  • Vijay Naugain

    Director - Human Resources

  • Abhaya Behera

    Director Resource Mobilization

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    100+

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAATC4960

  • Registration ID

    S-15160

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    DL/2016/0098892

  • 12A

    CIT/D-VI/TE(7)/85/95, ( DLI(C) (I-1874)

  • 80G

    DIT(E)/2009-2010/C-216/1965

  • FCRA

    231650315

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00000189

Location

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Society

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses
  • 2019-20

    Income
    Rs.290,637,412
    Expenses
    Rs.297,625,912
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.19,994,455
    Program Expenses
    Rs.277,631,457
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  • 2020-21

    Income
    Rs.400,965,153
    Expenses
    Rs.394,807,509
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.49,492,403
    Program Expenses
    Rs.345,315,106
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  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.841,814,315
    Expenses
    Rs.834,591,742
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.98,899,739
    Program Expenses
    Rs.735,692,003
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  • 2022-23

    Income
    Rs.612,833,421
    Expenses
    Rs.591,203,278
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.109,989,766
    Program Expenses
    Rs.481,213,512
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