{"id":5591,"date":"2022-10-29T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narayanseva.org\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2022-10-29T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:08:13","slug":"help-poor-children-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narayanseva.org\/ml\/help-poor-children-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best way to help poor children in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem of poverty has been existing in India for many years. The issue of poverty has impacted many underprivileged lives of women and children in negative ways. The reports have estimated that the country had nearly 9.97 crore children living in extreme poverty in the year 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are countless problems that an underprivileged child in the country faces. India has one of the highest child mortality rates with around 1.4 million children dying each year before even turning 5 years old due to causes like pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from that, despite the constitution’s Article 21A, that mandates the basic education of children, millions of them are still not even provided with this opportunity and if provided, the outcomes of learning are very low. According to UNICEF, in 2019, only 42.5% of children in grade 3 were able to read a grade 1 text.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same UNICEF report also stated India being the only country where girls die more than boys (11% more girls die than boys).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from poor education and health problems, the issue of child labour is still prevelant in the country despite Article 24 and Child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act, 1986 (later amended to become Child and Adolescent Labour Amendment Act, 1986 in 2016), which prohibits any kind of occupational work of all children under the age of 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

The government and many other non-governmental organisations have been consistently working towards uplifting these sections. However, as an individual, if you want to contribute in helping these children, there are many ways through which you can successfully do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the ways, in which one can contribute to poor children-<\/span><\/h2>\n