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A big Thank You to many who participated
Some of the many who pledged
Shabana Azmi with her Pledge
Kunal Kapur on the Launch Day
Priyanka chopra with her pledge
The Lantern that lit so many hearts
The light that captured all the attention.
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Save the Children with the help from its Partners conducts various on ground activities to raise awareness, gather support and instigate actions related to Child Right related concerns. Following are few of the recent events concluded which have been hugly successful in creating mass awareness and garner support from individuals belonging to all walks of life;
Hewlett Packard Volunteer Engagement
For five weeks between January and February 2010, volunteers from Hewlett Packard in Bangalore visited Save the Children’s Project villages in Raichur district of Karnataka. An incredible support to the local partners, volunteers brought liveliness and a boost of morale to the relief workers as they assisted the implementation of flood response activities. The visits from Hewlett Packard’s employees in Bangalore were a tremendous learning experience for both the volunteers, Save the Children and its partner organizations.
Participating in Save the Children’s emergency response was an experience that the volunteers from Hewlett Packard will never forget. They returned to Bangalore, their thoughts still with the villagers and the challenges that face them as they rebuild their lives after the floods.
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The Aviva Great Wall of Education
“Aviva Life Insurance India is happy to be associated with a credible organization like Save the Children India. Besides the Street to School programme, we recently conducted a book donation drive – Aviva Great Wall of Education and all the 123000 books have been donated to various projects run by Save the Children.”
-T R Ramachandran, CEO of Aviva India Life Insurance
A five day book donation drive that was activated across Delhi and the NCR region through drop boxes placed at schools, corporate and residential apartments. The event was launched on National Education Day, November 11, 2009 at Ansal Plaza, Khel Gaon Marg.
Children from 300 schools, families, individuals, publishing houses and the Ministry of Education contributed to the collection of 1,25,000 books which have been sent to 6 states including Delhi, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Over 1,70,000 children will have access to these books.
“This is a great initiative that Aviva has undertaken which will translate into hundreds of children from the most marginalized communities having a chance at education. Providing education to the poorest child from the poorest community is the best way of ensuring that the child has access to life opportunities that he/she otherwise may not have. People have been calling us every day, publishers, institutions, individuals, offering to give us books. Aviva has indeed triggered a truly noble humanitarian initiative.”
- Thomas Chandy, CEO, Save the Children India
EVERY ONE
2 million children in India die every year from easily preventable diseases. A child dies in India every 15 seconds. Each one leaves a heartbroken family .Which of these children have a right to survive? EVERYONE. It’s shameful and unjustifiable that in 2009 more than 9 million children will die before they reach their fifth birthday — over 20% of them in India.
Save the Children decided to take this cause to the people of India. This inculded educating them abou the cause and garnering support. A 3 day activity was conduted across various properties of DLF Foundation in Delhi and NCR and Inorbit Malls in Mumbai in which a huge wall was setup for people to come and mark their Thumb impressions.
We received over 14,000 Thumb Impressions with messages from people across these two cities followed by numerous enquiries with regards to this drive in days to come. This surly tells us that Save the Children and the people of India are in this cause together to help our country make the 46% annual reduction in the deaths of Under 5 children to meet the Millennium Development Goal 4 by 2015.
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