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Top 10 Ngo’s Working For The Welfare Of Children

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The future needs us, it needs us to provide them with proper education and see to it that no child is discriminated, dominated, abused whether mentally or physically upon. It is our responsibility to safeguard their interests and provide them with a beautiful childhood free from any worries or responsibilities. This is where Ngo’s for children come into play, ensuring that children from all backgrounds have an access to the basic needs of life. While there are many individuals as well as Ngo’s who work towards this cause we have shortlisted a few of them and would be elaborating further on their dedicated spectrum of work and the lives they have impacted with their unselfish work for the greater good.

Smile Foundation

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Smile Foundation came into being when a group of young corporate professionals decided to come together in order to benefit and harbour the likes and interests of children and to provide them with a safe and secure environment to grow up in. They are spread across 25 states with over 400 live programs, it works to ensure proper education, healthcare and livelihood for child and women empowerment. They have impacted close to 750,000 lives by working as a catalyst to bring about change in the lives of women, children and the youth so that they can emerge as leaders in near future. Some of their ongoing projects include Tayari Kal Ki, Shiksha Na Ruke, Plate Half-Full, Health Cannot Wait, She Can Fly etc.

Save The Children Foundation

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Save The Children is an international non-governmental organization that originated in the United Kingdom aimed to provide children with better education, healthcare and economic opportunities. They also work to help children during wars, natural disasters, poverty, violence etc. and see to it that their basic rights are not being denied. Save the children was co-founded by Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton who went ahead to create the initial draft for the UN Declaration of the Rights of The Child that now serves as the rights book for children around the world. Their goal list for children around the world includes –

Survive: No child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday
Learn: All children learn from a quality basic education
Are Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.

Child Rights And You (CRY)

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CRY was started by Rippan Kaur who started it with the motive of helping underprivileged children achieve their full potential. It works at the ground level by collaborating with district and state level governments, aanganwadi workers, parents, teachers as well as the children themselves. CRY was started with just Rs. 50 and 6 friends which has now spanned across 19 states with 102 Ngo’s now working simultaneously with them. So far, they have impacted about 3 million+ children with campaigns like yellow fellow, learn not earn, it’s a girl thing, not yet, poori padhai desh ki bhalai, etc. are some noteworthy mentions.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation

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The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the brainchild of the ISCKON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) trust in Bangalore. They operate the mid-day meal programme in schools so as to provide the underprivileged children with proper nutritious food. It started in 2000 and since then has been working tirelessly by impacting more than 2 million children. Today Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest non-profit mid-day meal programme that not only helps in eliminating malnutrition by providing children with wholesome meals but also set up biogas plants in their kitchens to reduce the amount of waste going into landfills.

Genesis Foundation

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Genesis Foundation is the linking bridge between underprivileged children with congenital heart defects and a free healthcare, surgeries, recuperation post-surgery and recovery. So far, they have assisted and helped more than 3000+ kids to undergo expensive and life-threatening surgeries totally free of cost. It was founded by Prema and Jyoti Sagar who had lost their child to a heart defect, this emotional vacuum led them to start working for kids and tending to them especially to the ones who cannot afford this high-end treatment. They have impacted thousands of lives and continue to do so by their selfless treatments.

Nanhi Kali

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Nanhi Kali was an initiative by Anand Mahindra that was started in 1996 to promote and provide education to the underprivileged girls in India. During those times, societal evils such as low female literacy, dwindling female population at workplaces, child marriage, child labor etc. were at an all-time high leading him to take the initiative of Nanhi Kali that managed to bring the female population to schools and managed to provide them with proper education. Individual as well as corporate donors can donate or sponsor the education of a child or provide them with educational necessities through their official site. They send over the child’s status report so that you can keep a look at their status.

Snehalaya

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Girish Kulkarni founded Snehalaya, an institution that helped women and children who have been affected by hiv and aids, children of sexual violence and poverty. Snehalaya hopes to provide care, treatment, education and end of life care treatment to those impacted by deadly diseases as such. It started with providing education to the children of a few sex workers and providing palliative care to people with hiv and aids which has now spiralled off to serving over 19,000 beneficiaries across 4 major areas that being education, healthcare, rehabilitation, and awareness.

SOS Children’s Villages of India

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SOS children’s village was established by Hermann Gmeiner, an Austrian philanthropist in Austria aimed to provide children with a safe home where they can live freely and grow up protected where their basic and rightful needs are taken care of. The foundation takes care of parentless or abandoned kids and helps set them up in children’s villages here they are looked after by one SOS mother. Every family has about 10/15 children where they are properly looked after and aided. The foundation strictly believes in their ideals of –

  • Every child belongs to a family
  • Every child grows with love
  • Every child grows with respect
  • Every child grows with security

Childline India Foundation

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Childline India Foundation is an initiative by the ministry of child and women development aimed to protect and harbour the interests and likes of children. It helps children in distress aged 0-18 years old by providing them with a 24/7 helpline number. The ChildLine no. is 1098 that rescues about 40,000 annually by either rescuing them from grave situations or by providing them a safe home away from violence and deceit. Some of the child issues that they deal with are online safety, child labour, abuse and violence, child trafficking, runaways etc.

Pratham Education Foundation

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One of India’s biggest non-governmental organisations is called Pratham Foundation, Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay jointly founded it. It works to give impoverished children in India access to high-quality education. The Pratham Foundation was started in Mumbai in 1994 with the goal of giving children living in slums access to pre-school education. The objective of the Pratham Foundation is “Every Child in School and Learning Well.” Pratham seeks to advance economic and social equality in India by raising the literacy rates of the country’s poor, who make up nearly one-third of the world’s impoverished. This is accomplished by introducing affordable, sustainable, and replicable educational models.

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Top 10 Child Activists In The World

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Children’s Day is celebrated every year on 14th of November on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, it is celebrated to raise awareness about children’s rights, education and welfare. It is a widely celebrated festival across India as countless programs, seminars, celebrations etc are held for children. In today’s day and age, we have countless child activists who work towards the betterment of society even at such a delicate age. This blog hopes to bring notice towards such child activists and their active participation in the society for a better future.

Thandiwe Abdullah

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Thandiwe Abdullah’s family was always up for protests and focused on doing their bit for making the society a better place for everyone. She attended her first protest when she was 2 and later at a the young age of 6 she made the active decision of protesting the merciless killing of Oscar Grant in 2009. Thandiwe made the decision to support the establishment of the organization’s child-focused offshoot. The BLM Youth Vanguard was established as a result. Since then, Thandiwe, the Youth Vanguard, and numerous other young people in the Los Angeles region have fought to defend LA kids. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) no longer conducts arbitrary searches, and efforts are now being made to completely eliminate school police from campuses.

Malala Yousufzai

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Malala Yousufzai is a Pakistani child activist who advocated for women and child rights as the Taliban banned girls from attending school during their reign. Her activism started getting a lot of retaliation as she was attacked by a gunman when she was on her way to home from school after giving a test. She was hit in the head by a bullet and her condition was critical for a really long time after which she was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. This sparked international outpour for her work and efforts towards a better future back in Pakistan. After months of rehabilitation and surgeries she worked hard to establish the Malala Fund, a charity dedicated to giving every girl the right to education. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Nobel prize and was the youngest ever Nobel – laureate.

Greta Thunberg

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Greta Thunberg is a Swedish child environmental activist who challenges world leaders to take immediate action. Change begins at home was her mantra as she started adopting lifestyle changes that reduced her and her family’s carbon footprint on the environment. Her straightforward and blunt speaking manner to the general public as well as to political leaders and assemblies gained attention from all over the world. When she demonstrated in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018, Thunberg, then 15 years old, rose to fame. She urged the government to reach its carbon emissions objectives while holding a sign that read, “School Strike for Climate”. Her modest initiative had an international impact, motivating thousands of young people to plan their own strikes. In order to protest, she was joined by more than 20,000 students by the end of 2018 from the UK to Japan. She won the first of three Nobel Peace Prize nominations for her work on climate change a year later.

Bana Alabed

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A young Syrian girl, Bana al-Abed from Aleppo used Twitter to send messages about the city’s blockade and seige with the help of her English-speaking mother. Majority of these tweets described airstrikes, destruction, starvation, displacement, the possibility that she and her family might perish, her desire for a quiet childhood, the al-Bab neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo, and her general cries for peace are heavy and sorrowful descriptions of the ever-destructive war happening over there. Her tweets got viral for her raw truth description and the longings of children who are stuck over at their houses praying for their own as well as their family’s safety.

Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez

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Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is an American child environmentalist who was formerly the youth director of earth guardians up until 2019. Martinez has delivered TED presentations and been asked to discuss environmental issues before the United Nations as a teenager. He addressed the UN General Assembly on climate change in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl in June 2015 when he was only 15 years old. His entry, “Speak for the Trees,” was picked as the Jury Award Winner when he competed against young artists from around the globe who submitted independently created music “to stimulate the negotiators” at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Martinez also filed lawsuits against the government for not taking action for the betterment of the environment, this lawsuit included plaintiffs ranging from the age of 9 to 20 years of age.

Vanessa Nakate

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Vanessa Nakate inspired by Greta Thunberg started a solitary strike against environmental inaction in Uganda. She co-wrote an open letter to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos with about 20 other young climate activists from around the world, urging businesses, financial institutions, and governments to cease funding fossil fuels right away. She was one of five foreign delegates who accepted Arctic Basecamp’s invitation to camp with them in Davos during the World Economic Forum. The delegates later joined a march for climate action on the final day of the Forum. Nakate founded the Green Schools Project, a renewable energy effort that seeks to convert Ugandan schools to solar power and equip them with eco-friendly stoves. The project has installed equipment so far in thirty schools.

Mari Copeny

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Mari Copeny first rose to spotlight when her letter to President Obama about the water situation caused him to travel to the city and personally assess the water crisis. He ultimately decided to provide $100 million in aid for the city of Flint as a result of that visit. By serving as a national youth ambassador for the Women’s March on Washington and the National Climate Mari in 2017, Mari demonstrated her continuous commitment to social justice. Mari is committed to stopping bullying and collaborates with Trendsetters Productions, an anti-bullying organisation. She participates in the Flint Youth Justice League as well. She served as the board chairwoman on the 2019 Kid Box board of directors. She also takes pride in her involvement with the young person organisation Eighteen by 18.

Sonita Alizadeh

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Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and activist who spoke about forced marriages. Her blunt opinions gained momentum when she first released the “Brides for Sale” video wherein she raps about young brides being sold off into marriages by their families. She with the help of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian filmmaker, she documented the lives of the young brides and their struggles. After this video was released on YouTube, she was contacted by the Strong heart group that provided her with a student visa and financial help to come and study in the states where she eventually settled. Her efforts did not stop there she went on to be more vocal about forced marriages which earned her a place in the list of BBC’s 100 women.

Sophie Cruz

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Sophie Cruz is a young child activist who showed active enthusiasm and worked for DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans). Her parents were immigrants who could be thrown out anytime and that made Sophie advocate and work for immigrants and give them their rights so that they could live legally. When she was 5, Pope visited her colony out for undocumented immigrants, she ran out to meet him and take about the issues but was turned away by the security. However, the Pope had seen her run out and hence requested to meet her, the next day he spoke about the issue of illegal immigrants in front at a joint congress of the United States Congress. She also spoke about it in front of Barack Obama at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., in protest against the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Naomi Wadler

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Child activist Naomi Wadler regularly protests against gun violence. 60 of her students at George Mason Elementary School participated in a walkout she organised. She then went on to plan numerous protests and talk about black victims, earning her praise from black celebrities for her commitment to her cause. Later, Wadler gave speeches at the Teen Vogue summit and the Women in the World Annual Summit. Wadler was given a standing ovation for her speech when she accepted the Disruptive Innovation Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was included in Teen Vogue’s “21 Under 21” list and appeared on the cover of New York Magazine with Barbra Streisand.

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