Save the Children India

Bal Raksha Bharat, commonly known as Save the Children India, is a non-profit organization working to improve the lives of children in India. Their headquarter is located in Gurgaon, India. While Save the Children has been working in India since 1960s, Save the Children India formally came into being as Bal Raksha Bharat in 2008 and has since then reached 6.1 million children through its efforts. The organization works to bring equality and lasting change in education, health & nutrition for children across India and works in various ways to help children exercise their rights. It works through advocacy, programmes and spreads awareness and brings attention to the needs of children. It also responds to emergencies and disasters going by its philosophy that children are worst affected by these, it also works in peace time to develop models and tools to mitigate the impact of disasters. Save the Children India is part of the global Save the Children movement, with operations in over 120 countries around the world. Save the Children has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for the past 11 years.[1]

Programs

Save the ChildrenIndia is an advocate for children's rights and has programs in the following areas: • Child Protection • Education and Child Development • Emergency Response • Health and Nutrition • Removing child poverty Save the Children also responds to domestic emergencies and natural disasters such as Floods in South India, Drought in West India, Uttarakhand floods, Floods in Jammu & Kashmir.[2][3][4][5]

Programs in India

Save the Children India works to ensure that underserved children ready to succeed by the time they begin school, enjoy academic and personal success in school, are healthy and active in learning and life, and are safe and protected when disaster strikes. Programming includes core early childhood, literacy, health and emergency preparedness and disasters response across 18 states of India. Acting as grantor, advocate, content provider and an ongoing source of technical support, Save the Children focuses on building strategic government and community partnerships to yield scalable, replicable, accountable model sites. In 2015, the organization reached 13, 47, 000 children.

2008 - Mautam plague in Mizoram

Provided food baskets, livelihood support, education to 3000 households affected by Mautam plague in Mizoram[6]

2008 – Kosi Floods

Comprehensive food baskets, hygiene kits, shelter, etc. provided 10,000 households [7]

2010 – Leh Cloudburst

Comprehensive support to 400 most severely affected households, built 6 schools.

2011 - Odisha Floods

Immediate relief by way of hygiene its, food basket and cash transfer programming to 4,000 households

2012 & 2016 – Assam Floods

Relief provided to 10,000 households, 55 Child Friendly Spaces/Temporary Learning Centres set up[8][9][10]

2013 – Uttarakhand Floods

A huge humanitarian operation targeting 10,000 households across 4 worst affected districts through integrated household kit (food basket, hygiene kit, blankets, tarpaulins, solar lamps); early recovery through cash transfer as well as a dynamic Child Protection and Education in Emergencies response through 60 Child Friendly Spaces / Temporary Learning Centers.[11]

2013 – Cyclone Phailin

Life-saving relief and rehabilitation support provided to 5,800 households[12]

2014 – J&K Floods

Immediate relief consisting of hygiene kits, compact family kits with solar lamps to 9,680 households and food baskets to 5000 marginal households; 34 health camps and 60 Child Friendly Spaces set up; Winter support to 201 families, 10 winter education camps.[13]

2015 – South India Floods

Relief materials were distributed to 4965 families in 38 villages in Tamil Nadu, 410 vulnerable families were provided with conditional and unconditional cash transfer, 13 Child Friendly Spaces, 830 families supported in Nellore (Andhra Pradesh)

References

  1. ↑ "Rating for Save the Children". Charity Navigator. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Floods, disasters 'raise risk' of women, children being sold into slavery". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  3. ↑ "Uttarakhand floods: Here's how you can help". news18. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
  4. ↑ "Death, destruction in Uttarakhand floods have traumatised children: NGO". Firstpost. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  5. ↑ "Jammu & Kashmir flood: Save the Children pledge support for immediate relief". Merinews. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
  6. ↑ "JDIFFERENT PLAGUE". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  7. ↑ "India: Untouchables suffer 'relief discrimination' after flood". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
  8. ↑ "'Save the children' NGO to help children in flood-hit Assam". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  9. ↑ "1.8 Million Children affected in Assam Floods - NGO". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  10. ↑ "Assam floods displace 1.8 mn children in 2012". Business Standard. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
  11. ↑ "Uttarakhand tragedy: Orphaned children face trafficking threat". Firstpost. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
  12. ↑ "Cyclone Phailin Hits India's East Coast". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-10-12.
  13. ↑ "Jammu & kashmir flood : Save the Children pledge support for immediate relief". Merinews. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
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