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PROGRAM RELATED
A: In CINI’s project area covering villages and slum areas, care is taken to include poor women and children. Identification is made easy with the help of community members and CINI staff who belong to the same area.
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What does CINI do?
A: CINI provides and facilitates nutrition, health, education and protection services to poor and marginalized children and women in villages and slum areas in West Bengal and Jharkhand states of India.
Q: How do you ensure health of children in your programme?
A: Children receive age appropriate immunisations against tuberculosis, measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Their parents are taught simple hygienic measures to prevent transmission of infections, low cost nutritious diets and getting their children treated for infections from the nearest health centre. They are visited at home by CINI trained health workers and their progress is monitored on parent retained health cards. Families are encouraged to drink safe water, use sanitary toilets and sleep in insecticide treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria and dengue.
Q: How do you ensure nutrition in children in a poverty situation?
A: Adequate nutrition during pregnancy is ensured by teaching mothers to eat well to deliver babies with birth weight above 2.5 kgs. After delivery, exclusive breast feeding is promoted to ensure that the child is supplied with antibodies to prevent childhood ailments. Low cost and home available foods with emphasis on home grown vegetables, protein sources from home raised poultry, fish from the local fish ponds are promoted instead of status foods purchased from the stores. The importance of frequent feeding and improving quality of foods is emphasised.
Q: How do you ensure that the child goes to school?
A: Parents and family members are trained to prepare children to enter school, by CINI trained workers using teaching and learning materials. The parents are guided to the nearest school to get their children enrolled and regular follow up is made both at school and at the family level to ensure that they remain in school.
SPONSOR RELATED
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Q: How do I make a donation?
A: You may donate on line through our website, or by sending a cheque or draft in favor of “Child in Need Institute” and sent to CINI International Unit, 23/44 Gariahat Road, Kolkata – 700029, West Bengal, India. An official receipt will be sent to your address. A bank transfer is also possible and you may contact cini.international@cini-india.org for bank details.
Q: Can I visit my sponsored mother or child?
A: We welcome visits to your sponsored child and will be happy to plan this if we receive your travel plan. Your stay can be arranged at the CINI guest house in our campus, located in the outskirts of
Kolkata.
Q: Can I send Gifts to my sponsored mother or child?
A: We prefer to receive donations instead against your preferred gift, which will be purchased locally and given to the child. A “thank you card” will be sent to you on behalf of the child. This is to avoid loss in transit by mail..
Q: What reports/acknowledgement will I receive for my donation?
A: Periodic reports with photos will be sent for sponsorship programmes. Project reports as agreed to will be sent periodically, when mutually agreed to projects are supported. Receipts and tax exemption certificates will be provided as and when required.
Q: Can I make a gift sponsorship on behalf of another person?
A: Yes! We will be very happy to “gift” a mother through our “Adopt a Mother” or “Educate a Child” sponsorship to your designated family member, friend or colleague at work and send reports regularly. This can be sent on a birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Diwali or Puja..
Q: Can I visit the beneficiary or project if I go to india?
A: You will be always welcome, one month notice is preferable to visit a beneficiary.
Project visits may be organised with a shorter notice. First time visitors are welcome every Thursday morning (except for public holiddays) to CINI main
campus by 10.00 to visit the Thursday clinic and get an overview of activities.
GENERAL QUESTIONS
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Q: What is the source of CINI’s Funding and the total budget?
A: CINI receives its funding by raising donations from the community it serves (10%), from the state and central government of India against grants for projects (15%), CINI’s own fund raising efforts in India and internationally (10%) and from national and international donors (65%).
Q. How Credible and Trustworthy is CINI?
A. CINI has grown since its inception in 1974 from small beginnings to a National level organization covering over 5 million people in some of the poorest parts of India. The Government of India recognized CINI’s contribution through the National Award for Child Welfare twice in 1985 and 2005. CINI is accredited to The Credibility Alliance, who govern and monitor transparency and effectiveness of NGOs in India.
Q: Can I contribute to CINI’s CORPUS fund?
A: We will very much appreciate donations to CINI Corpus Fund, as interest from the invested amount helps to defray expenses towards salaries of core staff, fund pilot projects to benefit children and women and fund raising initiatives. .
Q. How can I be involved?
A. You may join CINI support groups located in India, UK, USA, Italy, Belgium, Holland to sensitize others to prevent the devastating effects of malnutrition, illiteracy, gender discrimination and poverty in children and women in India, and to raise funds to support our activities. You may also initiate such activities in your own country and CINI International will guide you. Please see http://www.cini-india.org/international.asp section for contact details of CINI support groups.
Q: Does CINI take volunteers?
A: Volunteers who are willing to contribute to skill building for CINI colleagues in areas such as documentation, data analysis, action research, proposal development and website management are always welcome. Language barriers may lead to communication problems with children and women who speak only Bengali and Hindi.
Q: What is the best time to visit CINI?
A: Visitors are welcome round the year, mid October to mid February is recommended as it is
cool and sunny. A week’s visit from Monday to Friday is adequate to visit urban areas of Kolkata and nearby villages where most of the projects are
located.
Q: Whom do I contact to arrange a visit?
A: Contact the CINI registered charity in your country at the contact address given, or contact CINI directly at : CINI International Unit, india, 23/44 Gariahat Road, 9near Golpark), Kolkata - 700029, West Bengal, INDIA, Phone: 91 (33)246602067, Fax: 91 (33) 24601395,
Email:cini.international@cini-india.org.
With prior notice, airport pickup, safe food and accomodation at CINI guest house in Kolkata, on modest charges can be arranged for individuals or groups.
