Welcome back, after almost 1 year I am posting this post. Sorry to all of you (my friends) who are member of our community “Help 2 Orphan Children” in Facebook for late post, but “Better late than never”. Belated Happy Christmas to all of you. Wish you and your family a very Happy New Year 2012.
I was busy in my personal front as well as India against Corruption movement. Now again I came back and putting other details about the orphan children. If you have any material regarding this subject then please send those materials to “backup.to.orphan@gmail.com”. If materials will be useful then we will publish your materials in our blog. So come on and be a part of this noble cause and this is a team work. Single person can’t change the whole world but you can change the world of single person.
About 20 million children, about 4% of the total population of India - that is, more than the total population of greater Delhi - are orphans.
Of those 20 million, only 0.3% of the children were orphaned by the death of their parents.
The rest - 99.7% of them - are abandoned children.
The figure is from a study done by SOS Children’s Village by analyzing data from the National Family Health Survey-3 for the year 2005-06 and the population estimation by the Census of India to find the dark spots for children below the age of 18 in India.
“Poverty has been a significant contributor in high orphan children figures in these states,” said Rakesh Jinsi, secretary general of the NGO, the SOS Children’s Village. “Social unrest and terror - Militancy and Naxalism - are two other major factors behind the high number of orphans in certain states”.
Orphan children for the study were defined as those abandoned and whose both parents have died. Situation of children with single parent has also been analysed in the study.
India has the highest population of children below the age of 18 - 41% of the total population. Although over 4% of them are orphan as per the study, around 13% live with a single parent.
But what the study highlights is that a large number of children in India struggle to survive, living alone and having no access to education and other welfare measures. Some of these children end up being trafficked or pushed into illegal activity.
“Many of the children who are trafficked are those whose parents have died or they have been abandoned,” said a senior government official.
The only good news the study presents is that the overall estimation of orphan children in percentage terms is expected to fall by 2021, although their number will increase from present the 20 million to 24 million. However, there is no comparative data to indicate whether the number of orphan children has increased or decreased in recent years and decades.
The SOS Children Village did not present the segregated data on sex-ratio of these children to find out whether or not abandonment of the children is based on the gender of the child.
So just come and help these orphan children for their education, so that they will take decision and know what is legal & ethical. As we all know hungriness is the mother of all crime, help them by food & love so they will not take any steps in illegal activity.
Come join us and help them.
I was busy in my personal front as well as India against Corruption movement. Now again I came back and putting other details about the orphan children. If you have any material regarding this subject then please send those materials to “backup.to.orphan@gmail.com”. If materials will be useful then we will publish your materials in our blog. So come on and be a part of this noble cause and this is a team work. Single person can’t change the whole world but you can change the world of single person.
About 20 million children, about 4% of the total population of India - that is, more than the total population of greater Delhi - are orphans.
Of those 20 million, only 0.3% of the children were orphaned by the death of their parents.
The rest - 99.7% of them - are abandoned children.
The figure is from a study done by SOS Children’s Village by analyzing data from the National Family Health Survey-3 for the year 2005-06 and the population estimation by the Census of India to find the dark spots for children below the age of 18 in India.
“Poverty has been a significant contributor in high orphan children figures in these states,” said Rakesh Jinsi, secretary general of the NGO, the SOS Children’s Village. “Social unrest and terror - Militancy and Naxalism - are two other major factors behind the high number of orphans in certain states”.
Orphan children for the study were defined as those abandoned and whose both parents have died. Situation of children with single parent has also been analysed in the study.
India has the highest population of children below the age of 18 - 41% of the total population. Although over 4% of them are orphan as per the study, around 13% live with a single parent.
But what the study highlights is that a large number of children in India struggle to survive, living alone and having no access to education and other welfare measures. Some of these children end up being trafficked or pushed into illegal activity.
“Many of the children who are trafficked are those whose parents have died or they have been abandoned,” said a senior government official.
The only good news the study presents is that the overall estimation of orphan children in percentage terms is expected to fall by 2021, although their number will increase from present the 20 million to 24 million. However, there is no comparative data to indicate whether the number of orphan children has increased or decreased in recent years and decades.
The SOS Children Village did not present the segregated data on sex-ratio of these children to find out whether or not abandonment of the children is based on the gender of the child.
So just come and help these orphan children for their education, so that they will take decision and know what is legal & ethical. As we all know hungriness is the mother of all crime, help them by food & love so they will not take any steps in illegal activity.
Come join us and help them.
