1. 26th November, 2010
Workshop 2
Our Children: Our Future

2. Our Children
What future holds for them?
26th November, 2010

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Born with weight less than 2.5 Kg
Imagine
Nandu

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A stumbling start
His home is a tiny shack
He is 2 and weighs 7 Kg

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Nandu has dropped out of school, all the family talk is around the next meal for
the children…disenchanted with this humdrum existence
On the Streets at 10
He is now 10
He steals some money & runs away from home…

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Leading an adult life

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Truncated Childhood
Forced into drugs
In conflict with law!

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THERE ARE MANY
MORE SUCH
Nandus

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India is home to
World’s
largest
number of
sexually
abused
children
18 million
street
children
5 million
children are
forced into
commercial
sex trade
every year
8 million
children are
not in school
17 million
child laborers
- the highest
in the world
Youngest
population in the
world…1/3rd of
our population is
below 18 years
42% of all
the under-
nourished
children in
world
Source: HAQ – Status of India’s Children 2008, CRY, SMILE

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Is there Hope?

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Healthy Childhood
Awareness to-be mothers at ICDS Centers
Nourishment

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Childhood Restored

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A Child’s Right to Development…
Feeding the Young: NARAD, Thane
• Home based programme model
• Using existing Balwadi's in the village as a resource center
Rs. 5 Lac would provide basic nutrition twice a day
to 100 under-nourished children

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A Child’s Right to Security…
A Loving Home: SOS Children’s Village, India
Rs. 5 Lac would support yearly family
expenses of a 10 member family
• A caring parent
• Siblings
• Family Environment
• Community based living

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A Child’s Right to Protection…
A Safe Haven: Salaam Baalak Trust, Mumbai/Delhi
• A day learning center
• Vocational training
opportunities
• A Night shelter
Rs. 10 Lac to provide full 24-hr shelter care to 50
children

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To him we cannot answer 'TOMORROW.'
Answering Today
We are guilty of many errors and many faults
but our worst crime is abandoning the children,
neglecting the fountain of life.
Many of the things we need can wait. The child
cannot.
Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his
blood is being made, and his senses are being
developed.
His name is 'TODAY‘.
- Gabriela Mistral

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Thank You

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Role of the State
A rise in the budget share from 2001 to 2008-09 but not shining , the average budget is Rs. 3.75 out of 100 allocated
84 child specific schemes from 8 ministries of the Government of India Of these 8 are allocations for institutions
such as NCPCR, NCERT, NIPCCD, Bal Bhawan and Kalavati Saran Hospital etc (Around 26 million children are not
covered by ICDS) were analysed by HAQ Center for Child Rights to find out this.
What happens to the money?
- Under-utilisation of resources in education & development (5.5-6 %)and health (10.59%) -
- money not sanctioned on time
- Protection segment has seen the most underspending (12.76%), lack of planning and implementation
e.g. Despite the deficit of 6.5 lakh Anganwadis and thousands of children uncovered, the government
actually le# money unspent in ICDS in 2006-07
e.g. Funds were not utilised even for the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, allowing it
to function even in the last year of its ! rst term with fewer members — three including the chairperson —
and its budget declined 30 per cent from Rs 10 crore in 2007-08 to Rs 7 crore in 2008-09.