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Jhunjhunwala - CII Chairman WB (L), Mayor Kolkatta (C)

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HTML fileSave the Children launches appeal for Bihar's children battling the floods
 
Children are at the brink of malnutrition in Bihar where floods have affected more than 2 million people.  Save the Children is working towards providing immediate relief to 10,000 families.  We need your support to ensure this.
Save the Children 

Save the Children, Bal Raksha, Bharat is an independent member of the International Save the Children Alliance.

We fight for children's rights and deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives in India. Save the Children has existed in India since pre-independence days and is currently working in 11 states and union territories of India.

Our current priorities are increasing children's access to a quality education; protecting children from abuse , exploitation and neglect; working with children affected by HIV AIDS, and assisting children and their families being better prepared for emergencies and coping in their aftermath.

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Strategic Issues for Save the Children in India

There is a wide range of issues that adversely impact on children in India, making them especially vulnerable. However, some of the core on which Save the Children India focuses are:

Emergencies
FACT: Children are most vulnerable during emergencies - more likely to get sick, exploited and often separated from their families.

Save the Children saves and transforms lives in the aftermath of emergencies. In addition to basic humanitarian aid, we ensure that children and their families are better able to cope with emergencies over the longer term.

Child Protection
FACT: Thousands of children in India suffer from exploitation, abuse and neglect.

Save the Children works towards the eradication of hazardous and exploitative forms of child labour.  We work with state authorities and civil society organisations to protect children from all sorts of exploitation, abuse and neglect

Education
FACT: 46% children from Scheduled Tribes and 38% from Scheduled Castes are out of school.

A priority area for Save the Children has been to increase to relevant and quality government pre and primary education, especially for the most marginalised groups of children

 

Child Health
FACT: India has 40% of child malnutrition in the development world.

Save the Children saves lives by improving access to health care for children and mothers.  Save the Children also tackles the main cause of ill health - poverty - by campaigning for fairer policies and resources for health services

These have been selected because:

  • We consider there is reasonable potential to affect significant change in children's lives in India in the medium term
  • We can make good use of existing work and partnerships in India, and to develop new ways of working on these issues to broaden impact
  • They come within Save the Children's global priorities and competencies so we can link with regional and global resources.