Areas of our Concern
What is the condition of children in India?
- There are 13 million homeless children in India, and there are also 1.1 million street children.
- 142 out of 1000 children under 5 die every year in India (as against 9 out of 1000 in nations like Germany/France).
- 1 out of every 6 girls in India does not live to see her 12th birthday.
- 4 out of 5 children in India never enter a school.
- 11,000 children in India die every day of easily preventable diseases.
- More than 400,000 children, below the age of 14 years are involved in prostitution in India.
- India has an estimated 115 million child laborers, of these, 1 million work in hazardous occupations.
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