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    Supporting the suffering population in the Mayurbhanj district
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    When the school comes to the children in the slums...

4 million children live on the street in India

Indian street children are homeless because their families are without shelter due to poverty and migration, because they have been abandoned or have run away from home. Some have a home, but drift into the street during the day. Many children have run away from home because they have been beaten and/or sexually abused. The same fate catches up with them on the streets.

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We work against abuse, maltreatment and the neglect of children

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We work to ensure children retain their rights and can live according to them

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We work to ensure that injustice towards children is not tolerated in silence

Children and their fate in poverty

Poverty hits children particularly hard

These are among the many arguments why we must stand up for the children in India.
  • 2/3
    2/3 of the Indian population live in poverty
  • 4 Mio.
    4 million children live on the street in India
  • 40 Mio.
    India has 40,000,000 illiterate people under 15 years old and 280,000,000 illiterate people over 15 years old
  • 50 Mio.
    50 million children regularly work. However, the majority of street children work in very unsafe positions (i.e. waste recycling or as domestic servants). Others earn their living from begging, stealing, prostitution etc.

Projects

School materials for children in the slums

Happy children for a better future

Since April 2022, together with our local partner Anwesana, we have been offering our Day Care School leavers in Mayurbhanj District, Odisha, India, additional lessons in their free time. The project contributes to improving the educational pattern and aims to help them successfully complete grade 10 at the public school. The participating girls and boys are between 10 and 16 years old.

Tutoring for our Day Care School graduates

Further assistance

Since April 2022, together with our local partner Anwesana, we have been offering our Day Care School leavers in Mayurbhanj District, Odisha, India, additional lessons in their free time. The project contributes to improving the educational pattern and aims to help them successfully complete grade 10 at the public school. The participating girls and boys are between 10 and 16 years old.

Training as a dressmaker

The path to independence

The tailoring projects focus on practice and theory taught by qualified tailors.

Pre-schools for the children of the nomads

Schools for tribal children

ChildRightNow opened a day school for pre-school children in Baliposi, in the Indian state of Odisha in 2016 and another day school in Dengam in December 2021. Thanks to these schools, we can offer children a better future by providing them with a school education, regular health check-ups and hot meals so they are no longer malnourished.

Mobile schools

When the school comes to the children in the slums...

The concept of the Moving School is to bring together children from slums and rural areas and provide them with a non-formal education in a pleasant and loving atmosphere. This prevents the children from having to do paid work or look after their siblings at home and therefore staying away from school. The Moving School aims to get children used to the structures of schools and education from an early age and to get them excited about learning. As a result, Moving School children generally attend public school from the age of six and do not drop out because they and their parents understand the benefits of education.

Save the girl save the world

Equal Rights

Since September 2021, the project "Save the girl save the world" exists in different villages of the Indian state of Odisha. It is a prevention and support programme for the protection of girls and young women in India. Because of this project, the aim is to create an equal society in which women and men can realise their full potential, exercise their rights and responsibilities, and lead their lives with dignity and selfrespect.

Primary education for the tribal children

Equal opportunities for all children

Since the beginning of 2023, we have been supporting the project "Primary Education for Tribal Children" in India together with our partner Sangrami. The children of tribal people in rural areas have hardly any access to education and thus practically no chance of being able to integrate into the world of work and society. The project aims to give the children this chance, to provide them with the necessary knowledge and to give them the opportunity to decide for themselves about their future. In addition, this school makes it possible that the children no longer have to do child labour such as in quarries, agriculture or construction.

Primary education for the tribal children

Fighting human trafficking

Since the beginning of 2023, we have been working with our Indian partner Sangrami in the Balasore district to sustainably reduce trafficking in women and fight to ensure the human dignity of disadvantaged groups of women.