Practical solutions for child malnutrition
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
Radio reporters of Jadavpur
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
The koel's song
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
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
The young performers of Jamghat
Streetchildren and former child labourers have come together at Jamghat to use theatre for social awareness
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
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
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
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
Yogi and the Fatehgadh band
A supplementary education project in Kutch, Gujarat, shows how meaningful education is possible despite the limitations of the state-managed education system