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Since the second wave of COVID-19 hit, over 5.26 lakh people in India lost their lives to the virus. Reports of children being left alone following the untimely demise of their parents due to the pandemic started pouring in from all corners of the country. With the support of donors like you, we were able to support more than 300 such children across the country who lost their parents during COVID-19, in continuing their education.With both Centre and State governments taking initiatives to support these children, many of them were linked with welfare schemes. However, there are still 160 such children who would require support for at least another six months. These children are identified by state governments and district administrations and the list has been shared with Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, seeking support.  
 KSCF aims to support 160 identified children in need of care for another six months before they are mainstreamed by linkage with government schemes and other welfare schemes.As little as Rs. 2,000 a month can help a child in need to continue education and meet his/her basic needs. We urge you to please take the step forward and support as many children as you can. Any amount, however large or small, is truly appreciated… 
 The funds raised will be used to support 160 children who lost their parent/s (or the earning parent) to COVID-19. The funds will ensure that all these children are able to continue their education and are protected from exploitation.

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Education is believed to be one of the powerful tools to attain freedom in a real sense. Freedom is not only about physical freedom from the situation of exploitation but also the opportunity and liberty of expressing freely and fulfilling life’s aspiration. Rehabilitation of children in the mainstream from an exploitative situation is incomplete without quality higher education and the necessary skills required for gainful employment. Once equipped with quality education and vocational skills, children will be able to break the shackles of exploitation and violence forever and become self-reliant. Children staying in childcare institution exercise their constitutional right of free and compulsory education up to grade eight. Maintaining academic continuity, especially after leaving the care homes, becomes a big challenge for these children. Most of the inmates in such care homes start their education late due to their past, and they are barely able to complete higher secondary by the time they reach 18 years of age which is the maximum age limit for staying at childcare institution. There are higher chances of discontinuation of further studies by the children who do not receive proper aftercare support despite having huge potential to excel in an educational and professional career. 
 Generally, the rate of transition from elementary to secondary education and further higher education for the children having a history of exploitation is poor, owing to a lot of factors. A lack of strong support mechanism after completion of stay at a special home/children’s home leaves the child at crossroads, and this is believed to be one of the primary reasons for the discontinuation of their education. Keeping this in view, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF) has established Freedom Fellow Education Fund (FFEF) to empower such children who are the survivor of exploitation and violence by supporting them and ensuring access to high quality higher education thereby preparing them as future change agents. Presently, there are 24 such Freedom Fellows who are receiving full support for their education across different field of studies from secondary to master degree level. These children who are referred by childcare homes/ various organisations and individuals post identification are profiled, counselled and assessed by KSCF under their different interventions, PAN India. Financial assistance is made directly into the account of the institutions on course fee, accommodation and food facilities. 
 The Freedom Fellows Education Fund is aimed at creating a pool of educated, empowered and strengthened Freedom Fellows — young individuals who are free-thinking, self-assured and confident citizens of modern society. With exposure to sound and high quality higher education, children who have been rescued from labour, slavery or violence can realise their aspirations of becoming equal and productive members of society. These Freedom Fellows will also become effective game-changers and agents of transformation for millions of children of lesser privilege, thereby contributing to the principles of equity and freedom, self-respect and sustainability. Among the 24 freedom fellows who are being supported, there are cases of as the fellow studying Masters in Micro- Biology, Law from Universities as Delhi University, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Calcutta University as few names. The aim of FFEF is towards fulfilling and nurturing the dreams and aspirations of children, by fostering access to additional educational opportunities of gaining academic excellence from premier institutions across the world thus realising their aspirations of becoming equal and productive members of society.

Freedom Fellow Education Fund

Millions lost their livelihood opportunities during the pandemic, facing grave difficulties fending for their families. However, Covid also brought along with itself another major crisis for the country – a halt on education! As the pandemic started spreading and the country went into lockdown, educational institutions were shut down to prevent students from getting and spreading infection. Online classes started for children of private schools in urban areas, but a huge proportion of children living in the urban slums and rural areas of the country still remain deprived of education. Being out of school for months is not just leading to children losing interest in education but also making them more vulnerable to trafficking, child labour, and other forms of exploitation 
 Our aim is to connect children in rural and urban slum areas with education and provide them mid-day meals in the safety of their homes, so as to ensure that they are not just protected from the virus, but also from exploitation. For connecting them with education we plan to provide, mobile phones, tablet PCs and internet connectivity to children living in urban slums and rural India, who do not have an access to these facilities. 
 We want to ensure that such children who have stayed away from education due to lack of facilities during the COVID-19 period are able to get online education from the safety of their homes. This will prevent them from dropping out of school and falling into the trap of various forms of exploitation like child labour, child marriage, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation and more.

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KSCF builds on over 40 years of legacy of Nobel Peace laureate, Mr Kailash Satyarthi. As part of the Satyarthi Movement for Children, KSCF was established in 2004 as “Save the Childhood Foundation” (SCF) by Mr Satyarthi with a goal to provide holistic and sustainable solutions to all forms of violence against children with an integrated approach. The foundation’s goal is to end all violence against children by ensuring child protection through innovations, research, awareness generation, partnerships, and participation. KSCF has adopted a strategy of building greater collaboration between governments, businesses, and communities, ensuring effective laws, scaling know-how and successful practices.

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