In India, there are several international NGOs trying to improve the lives of children. These organisations are working in tandem with government programmes, regulations, and legislation to do all it takes to guarantee that all children have equal access to their rights, lead a happy and safe childhood and have a bright future.
Some of these NGOs are:
Save the Children International
Save the Children International is a renowned independent child rights NGO in India and a global non-profit. The NGO works to protect, educate, and assure the survival of the most vulnerable children around the world for more than a century. Through our work, the NGO annually impacts tens of millions of kids in 116 different countries. Save the Children is strongly committed to ensuring that children not only survive, but also thrive because they firmly believe that every child deserves the best opportunity for a bright future. More than 80 nations throughout the world are home to Save the Children, which strives to better the lives of the most vulnerable children residing there.
CRY (Child Rights and You)
Every child should have a joyful, healthy, and creative childhood, according to CRY. They include making sure children in CRY-backed initiatives have access to free, high-quality education, basic healthcare, and are protected from abuse, exploitation and violence. They also aim to lower the rate of child malnutrition and ensure that children’s views are heard in discussions about topics that concern them.
CHF (Child Help Foundation)
Child Help Foundation (CHF), a national non-profit organisation with a focus on children that was established in 2010, is dedicated to ensuring that children's rights, as outlined in the Indian Constitution and the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child), are upheld. The NGO conducts operations throughout India and promotes health, with a particular emphasis on providing children with medical emergency support, quality education, access to clean water and sanitation and hunger eradication. Its goals include saving children's lives, ending hunger, identifying and treating malnutrition, and handling emergency situations brought on by natural catastrophes.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Akshaya Patra Foundation runs on a public-private partnership (PPP) method of operation. Since Akshaya Patra serves as the Mid-Day Meal Scheme's implementing partner, the Indian government, state governments and related groups firmly support the organisation. Due to this, Akshaya Patra's school lunch initiative has expanded, serving over 2 million students in 2022 as opposed to just 1,500 in 2000.
Project Nanhi Kali
Project Nanhi Kali, run by the K C Mahindra Education Trust, offers impoverished girls in classes 1 through 10 all-around support in order to help them graduate from school with dignity. The project gives the girls daily academic support and a yearly supply box of school goods, enabling them to go to school with dignity. To raise awareness of the value of girls' education, the team works closely with community stakeholders and the families of the girls.
Smile Foundation
Through more than 350 active welfare programmes on education, healthcare, livelihood, and women's emancipation in more than 1,000 isolated villages and slums throughout 25 states of India, the Smile Foundation is an NGO that directly benefits over 750,000 children and their families each year. According to the NGO, education is both the means and the end to a better life. It is the means because it gives a person the ability to support themselves and it is the end because it increases awareness of a variety of issues, such as healthcare, appropriate social behaviour and understanding one's rights and helps a person become a better citizen.
Giving to NGOs helps to ensure that all children, regardless of caste, class, ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, have an equal chance to live and prosper in society. Donate to help children!