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Population: 1.2 billion
Life Expectancy: 64.1 years
Under-5 Mortality: 72 per 1,000 live births
Illiteracy rate: 34.8%
UN development index: 0.609, ranked 132nd out of 179 countries
Number of Street Children:
18 million

In India, Childreach International works in partnership with Sewa Rural, Shaishav and Centre for Development (CfD) and Association for Social and Human Awareness (ASHA).

India, the second most populous country after China, is confronted with many social problems; in particular, many of the population, especially those in rural areas, remain illiterate. Therefore all four projects focus on child education as a priority.

 

  • Childreach International finances CfD's 'Kadam Education' project that has established two education centres and focuses on educating urban poor children - school dropouts, child labourers or victims of communal riots.
  • We also help Sewa Rural to provide informal education and attempt to reduce the school dropout rate, hold health camps and health awareness training and provide vocational training.
  • With Childreach International's support Shaishav run an innovative project called Balsena. Balsena is a children's collective where the children conduct monthly meetings, programmes, activities and celebrations and work together to solve problems they face at home, school or in their communities.
  • Childreach International are supporting a project with Association for Social and Human Awareness (ASHA).  The project provides elementary education and healthy environments to underprivileged tribal children in the Saraikela district.