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Practical solutions for child malnutrition

By Shreya Sanghani

With half of India’s under-5 children malnourished, it isn’t enough to tell parents to feed their children a high-protein diet. At CINI’s Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres mothers learn which locally available foods are nutritious, how to cook them and how often to feed their children More...

Radio reporters of Jadavpur

By Sushmita Malaviya

Child Radio Reporter is a joint initiative between Jadavpur University and Unicef to empower children to talk about subjects related to their everyday lives. They cover areas like child labour, human trafficking, broken marriages and their effect on families, especially children, and alcohol-related violence More...

The koel’s song

By Manjira Majumdar

Poverty and inaccessibility keep the adivasi children of six villages in Birbhum district, West Bengal, out of government schools. But they are getting an innovative and creative non-formal education at Suchana. A storybook written and illustrated by the children themselves has just been published More...

Schoolkids show the way to 100% sanitation

Every house in Ghachowk village in Nepal has a toilet, and the community takes responsibility for keeping the village clean. Local schoolchildren were the first to learn these lessons and did a splendid job of passing them on to adults More...

The young performers of Jamghat

Streetchildren and former child labourers have come together at Jamghat to use theatre for social awareness More...

Bal Vikas Bank: Run by street children, for street children

The Children's Development Bank offers loans to poor children to start up small businesses and teaches them to become self-reliant More...

Bachpan Bachao Andolan leads crusade to eradicate child labour

The Bachpan Bachao Andolan/South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude has adopted some unique strategies in its campaign to free children who are forced into slave labour More...

CASP-PLAN trains slum children in hygiene

Backed by the Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (CASP)-PLAN, Bhopal's slum children, trained by Unicef, are taking the initiative and holding workshops on the importance of clean drinking water and sanitation More...

Platform No 6, New Delhi station, is home for these children

There are at least 100,000 streetchildren in New Delhi. The Salaam Baalak Trust's shelters and contact points offer some of these children healthcare and nutrition, basic literacy, counseling and vocational training More...

 

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