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India's population challenge is a good example of what is a trend amongst many developing nations. Unlike the major Western economies, with declining and aging populations, more than 28% of the Indian population is under the age of 15. Educating such a large number of children is a real challenge that is made more complex due to the largely rural population. With 68% of India's population considered rural and 8% classified as tribal, it is estimated that 60 million children or more are without access to education even at the elementary level.
The Care for Children program primarily aims to bring a modern and holistic education to children that are outside the reach of other government or private programs due to financial or other constraints.
The Care for Children program has grown to include 71 schools in 13 states serving 5750 children in India. This includes 47 rural schools, 21 tribal schools and 3 slum schools. We have also adopted several schools in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and South Africa.
These schools:
- Educate children up to the age of 15 years
- Supply uniforms, shoes, books, writing materials and mid day meals free of cost
- Provide outdoor medical facilities and mobile dispensary
- Train women in useful vocations, and give additional vocational training to unemployed youth in the community.
- Plant trees in tribal school areas, and teach organic farming techniques.
The care for children program is fully volunteer run. Your time and money enable the program to provide our children a well rounded education, vocational training, free medical check ups and medicines and foster respect for the environment through tree plantations and organic farming.
Visit Care for Children website to find out more about the program and to support the cause.