Women & Child Welfare

Underlining its aim to empower orphaned and vulnerable children to reach their full potential Miracle Foundation India, a fully-licensed Section 25 non-profit organization, conducted their first-ever Children’s Youth Ambassador’s Workshop, ‘Meeting of the Champions’. The initiative took place from 27th to 29th of July, 2019 at Mumbai’s Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini Center. Miracle Foundation India had received a total of 78...

With education being the key to socio-economic development, schools play an integral part in a child’s growth. It is thus very important for a school to impart the right values in students. Understanding their responsibility in upbringing a child, a Delhi school is utilising the platform to address the issues that matter among the children of...

Social activist Chinu Kwatra undertakes several initiatives –from cleaning beaches with his team called ‘Beach Warriors’ to feeding underprivileged children daily in ‘Roti Ghar'. His latest initiative revolves around education, but with a twist. Women from an economically challenged background often aren't educated, and are put in a difficult position in any documentation process. Most...

There are many programmes aimed at preserving traditional handicraft forms and others which work for empowering women, but a Self-Help Group in Gujarat has begun a programme for achieving both at the same time. A Women’s Self-Help Group in Bhat village of Ahmedabad has started providing training to its members in “Khatla Bharat”, a traditional...

In order to bring scalability in a social welfare program, it is important to bring about a behavioural change, especially in a country like India where the traditions and taboos are deeply imbibed in the psyches of the people. In a 2018 report, “Bold Philanthropy in India,” The Bridgespan Group observed that the barriers to...

Reaching the most marginalised is a matter of social justice, as well as being essential for creating inclusive societies and sustainable economic trajectories. Inequality hurts everyone, hampers progress on poverty reduction and the realization of human rights, threatens social and political stability and is a drag on economic growth. At the same time, it is vital...

Human trafficking, defined as the illegal trade of humans most commonly for the purposes of sexual slavery and forced labour, currently claims an estimated 24.9 million victims worldwide. Of them, 8 million trafficking victims live within India’s borders according to the Global Slavery Index. In 2017, an IPS officer, Raj Tilak Roushan was transferred from...

By Lachmi Deb Roy There is a famous African proverb according to which, “It takes a village to raise a child”. This applies to all kids, including special needs children. Often parents feel lonely in their journey and with a special needs kid, the stress is likely to be more. Staying in denial doesn’t help...

Child labour is directly linked with the retention in schools and children from all states agreed to this. In the study published in the report Child Rights in India: An Unfinished Agenda, children were of the opinion that as long as they were going to school, they would not get into labour (except that...

In India, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, has made the redress and prevention of sexual harassment within workplaces a central concern for all employers. It deems it the duty of the employer, as well as other responsible persons in work places or institutions to prevent or...

India has one of the highest female foeticide incidents in the world. The female child population in the age group of 0-6 years declined from 78.83 million in 2001 to 75.84 million in 2011. During the period 1991-2011, the child sex ratio (0-6 years) declined from 945 to 914. According to a study on...

India is a growing economy yet it’s frightening that every 3rd child in the country suffers from malnutrition, while two million children die from preventable diseases every year. Infant deaths in India remain the highest in the world. 802,000 infants died in India in 2017 due to lack of access to clean water, sanitation, proper...