The Akanksha Foundation is
a non-profit organization
that strives to fulfill underprivileged Indian children's dreams to
"learn, to play, to lead healthy lives" by offering them an education that
is tailored to fit their needs. The children that Akanksha helps have the
opportunity to enroll in regular schools or to enroll in an Akanksha
school. The organization also teaches children lessons to help them in
life, such as health, hygiene and self-confidence. Visit this site to
learn more about this organization and to
learn about the multiple ways that you can help to make a difference, or
email them at info@akanksha .org.
CRY India
Child Relief and You
(CRY) is a non-profit organization
that
uses its resources and donations to provide
assistance to other groups working in India to benefit children. Cry
offers both financial assistance and physical help to the organizations
as they see needed. CRY works
hard to assure that the projects it supports are accomplishing all that
they can to benefit the lives of underpriveleged children. CRY monitors
the projects that it supports by checking on the projects regularly
and working with the project partners and provide them with support. CRY
ensures that donations given by people like you will be used to positively
and effectively impact the lives of children in India.
Kinder
in Indien e.V.
This
is a non-profit
organization based out of Germany that works
with
local Indian doctors to give free vaccinations to impovershed children in
Bombay, India. The service is available for children ranging from
birth to eighteen years of age. Parents must bring their children to
the doctors in order to recieve the vaccination, and the doctors attempt
to give
each vaccinated child a toy to help ease the pain associated with
shots. This
organization is making
major strides in India by giving children an opportunity for a healthy
childhood.
VOICE
Voluntary Organization in
Community Enterprise (VOICE) is
dedicated to
giving street children in Bombay, India, a chance to attain an education
so that they will have a chance to make something of themselves. VOICE
has developed a ciriculum that is tailored to the needs of street
children. They offer formal education, as well as vocational and life
skills. VOICE takes schools to the places that children work, thereby
making education a real possiblity for working children.
The Churches' Council for
Child and Youth Care
The Churches'
Council for Child
and Youth Care (CCCYC) is a
religous group
that offers a variety of programs to benefit the lives of underpriveleged
children in South India. The programs range from giving children an
education or vocational and life skills to programs for disabled
children, for children of AIDS victims and children of prisoners. CCCYC
also offers day care programs that have been designed with the intent to
alleviate older siblings of this responsibilty and allow them to go to
school. CCCYC offers a variety of ways for people in other countries to
help make a difference in the life of an underpriveleged child in
India.
This website was created in the Fall of 1999
by
Matthew
Cardinale,
Amanda
Gitlin,
and Lindsey
Hollister, students at Tulane University. Our collaborate effort is
part of a class project for
Professor April
Brayfield's
Sociology 119:
Children and Society Class. Information about children in other
countries can be found at
The
Children Around the World webpage.
