ChildFund India

To provide quality education to children, ChildFund India works on its PENCIL(Protective, Effective N Context-based Initiation of Learning) programme. This programme while focusing on academics also strives to impart socio-emotional skills to the children.

The learning happens through multi-lingual channels, making available quality children's literature, conducting bridge classes for school drop-outs and introducing smart classes enabling effective STEM education.

ChildFund India focuses on the 3E’s of employment, entrepreneurship and empowerment of youth to enable productive livelihoods. Through its Lifeskills and Daksh initiatives, it provides functional knowledge and training in employable skills to underprivileged youth. It encourages youth to take up alternative trades like agriculture, animal husbandry, poultry farming, and other micro-enterprises to generate income.

Its Youth Fellowship initiative empowers youth to come forward and implement solutions to problems afflicting their local communities and EMPOWER works towards empowering local village institutions and strengthening local governance systems.

ChildFund India’s disaster risk management programme focuses on saving lives in crisis situations. Its efforts are directed at minimizing the risks due to disaster, the worst sufferers of which are children. The organisation takes up initiatives to introduce safe school planning and involve children in transforming their schools and surroundings into safety zones.

It operates child-centred responses to disasters providing essentials and ensuring the continuity of WASH facilities, distributing educational material to help affected children re-initiate studies and helping farmers through informing about climate-resilient crops and better crop management methods to aid in post-disaster recovery.

Its health programmes focus on mother and child nutrition through MACHAN(Mother And Child Health And Nutrition) and adolescent sexual and reproductive rights through Garima. It partners with Government agencies, experts and local partners to ensure that every child has access to good health, nutrition and safety.

It links mothers and children to Government welfare schemes, supports the implementation of WASH through installing water purification units, creates awareness and supports child nutrition and helps HIV-infected children by providing care and awareness generation.

Its Garima programme implements community-based interventions to make adolescents aware of their reproductive and sexual rights through counselling sessions, health services and proper menstrual hygiene management.