Around 40 million Indian children aged between 6-11 are not in school. Over half of India’s children will not progress beyond elementary school.
Poor children are vulnerable children. India has the largest population of children in the world but also the highest number of children engaged in work.
Only 44% of children between 12-23 months are fully immunized against the six major preventable diseases. Nearly 80% of infants have anaemia. Only 52% of women have at least three ante natal care visits and only 39% have access to government services for ante natal care and delivery.
At least 43% of Indian children under the age of 3 suffer from malnutrition. Malnutrition is linked to half of the child deaths in India.
"Our goal is to help Indian mothers and children help themselves. A little help from us is a big help to them."
The major achievement during the project Period are:
Shilon started life as a rag picker, earning around 25 rupees a day.
Date of Publication: 2008
Funding for this publication has been received from Child Hope UK to whom we are grateful.
Support was also received from Goal India and Railway Children UK for the research and collation of children's stories.
"I have been in India and visited CINI's projects. I was amased to see how they touch the lives of poor women and children!"
Valeria Benatti
2011 ICICI Lombard and CNBC TV18 ‘India Health Care Award’
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