WHO WE ARE:

Child Help Foundation (CHF) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to help needy and neglected children. Child Help Foundation approach focuses on basic education, development, intervention, treatment, care and lot more.

We are a team of spirited individuals, who believe we can make a difference and that it is important to give back to our society. Our beginning was simple and with sincere intentions, to create support structures that would help to provide tools like education, shelter, food and hope for those children and youth of marginalized communities.

Founding member have been associated with various NGO’s the field of empowerment of child, women and education. CHF is managed by team which comprises of individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise.

We have come a long way since 2007 when we worked with like minded people to open the Public School in Chas, Bokaro district in Jharkhand, India. Presently we actively run and manage numerous grass root level initiatives that facilitate basic education and health services for children in India.

MISSION & VISION:

Child Help Foundation formed by founding member to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of neglected and needy children. CHF focus on prevention, treatment, and community outreach for the overall development of children.

PHILOSOPHY

Child Help Foundation its success to its founder’s collective visionary beliefs, which are the heart of the organization: Child Help Foundation believes that every child has a unique contribution to make to the world. We do everything within our power to help each child heal and develop self-esteem to reach their God-given potential.

TEAM MEMBER

• Mr. Rajendra Pathak, B.E, MBA: Founder Member

• Mr. Jugender Singh, B.com: Founder Member

• Mr. Sunil Varghese, LLB, MBA: Founder Member

• Dr. Arun Kumar Phd, Biotechnology

• Dr. Raushan Jha Pathak, Medical Advisor

• Mr. Narendra Motwani, B.s.c : Honorary Advisor

   

Child Rights in India: An Introduction

India is a party to the UN declaration on the Rights of the Child 1959. Accordingly, it adopted a National Policy on Children in 1974. The policy reaffirmed the constitutional provisions for adequate services to children, both before and after birth and through the period of growth to ensure their full physical, mental and social development.

Accordingly, the government is taking action to review the national and state legislation and bring it in line with the provisions of the Convention. It has also developed appropriate monitoring procedures to assess progress in implementing the Convention-involving various stake holders in the society.

India is also a signatory to the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children. In pursuance of the commitment made at the World Summit, the Department of Women and Child Development under the Ministry of Human Resource Development has formulated a National Plan of Action for Children. Most of the recommendations of the World Summit Action Plan are reflected in India's National Plan of Action- keeping in mind the needs, rights and aspirations of 300 million children in the country.

The priority areas in the Plan are health, nutrition, education, water, sanitation and environment. The Plan gives special consideration to children in difficult circumstances and aims at providing a framework, for actualization of the objectives of the Convention in the Indian context.

Status of Children in India

Recent UNICEF report on the state of the world’s children under the title “Childhood Under Threat” , speaking about India, states that millions of Indian children are equally deprived of their rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and safe drinking water. It is reported that 63 per cent of them go to bed hungry and 53 per cent suffer from chronic malnutrition.

The report says that 147 million children live in kuchcha houses, 77 million do not use drinking water from a tap, 85 million are not being immunized, 27 million are severely underweight and 33 million have never been to school. It estimates that 72 million children in India between five and 14 years do not have access to basic education. A girl child is the worst victim as she is often neglected and is discriminated against because of the preference for a boy child.

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

In order to ensure child rights practices and in response to India’s commitment to UN declaration to this effect, the government of India set up a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

The Commission is a statutory body notified under an Act of the Parliament on December 29, 2006. Besides the chairperson, it will have six members from the fields of child health, education, childcare and development, juvenile justice, children with disabilities, elimination of child labour, child psychology or sociology and laws relating to children.

The Commission has the power to inquire into complaints and take suo motu notice of matters relating to deprivation of child's rights and non-implementation of laws providing for protection and development of children among other things.

The Commission is to ensure proper enforcement of child rights and effective implementation of laws and programmes relating to children- enquiring into complaints and take suo motu cognizance of matters relating to deprivation of child rights; non-implementation of laws providing for protection and development of children and non-compliance of policy decisions, guidelines or instructions aimed at their welfare and announcing relief for children and issuing remedial measures to the state governments.

Child Rights: Review

The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines basic rights of children covering multiple needs and issues. India as a country endorsed it on December 11, 1992.

The right to Education: 50% of Indian children aged 6-18 do not go to school

Dropout rates increase alarmingly in class III to V, its 50% for boys, 58% for girls.

The right to Nutrition: More than 50% of India's children are malnourished. While one in every five adolescent boys is malnourished, one in every two girls in India is undernourished.

The right to Health & Care: 58% of India's children below the age of 2 years are not fully vaccinated. And 24% of these children do not receive any form of vaccination. Over 60% of children in India are anemic. 95 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their fifth birthday. 70 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their first birthday.

The right to protection from Neglect: Every child has a right to lead a well protected and secure life away from neglect. However, children working under exploitative and inhuman conditions get neglected badly.

The right to Development: Every child has the right to development that lets the child explore her/his full potential. Unfavorable living conditions of underprivileged children prevent them from growing in a free and uninhibited way.

The right to Survival: Of the 12 million girls born in India, 3 million do not see their fifteenth birthday, and a million of them are unable to survive even their first birthday. Every sixth girl child's death is due to gender discrimination.