Sponsor
a child
Give a child hope and a future
Sponsor a child to provide children with a happy childhood!
Upon becoming a child sponsor, you will receive the
child's photo and a short profile. Once a year you will
receive a progress report about your sponsored child
and at the end of the year, you will receive a report
as well as a photo of your sponsored child together
with a season's greetings card.
A child sponsorship will make a child happy
1 in 3 of the world's malnourished children live in
India
Out of 275 million children, 132 million
children have never been to school.
An estimated 2 million children in
India are orphans.
50,000 Indian children are abandoned
every year by their parents.
More than 2 million children in India
die every year from diseases.
An estimated 10 crore Indian children
work; 20 lakh of them in hazardous environments like
mines and factories.
20 million children live in slums.
5 lakh children are living on the streets
of 10 big cities alone.
India has some 3-5 lakh child prostitutes but no separate
law to deal with child sexual abuse.
Over 44,000 kids go missing in India every year, out of
which some 11,000 remain untraced. Most of them end up
in brothels. |