CHILD LABOUR NUTRITION PROGRAMME

A significant proportion of children are engaged in child labour. In 2011 the national census of India found that the total number of child labourers aged 5–14 years to be at 10.12 million, out of the total of 259.64 million children in that age group. The child labour problem is not unique to India, worldwide, about217 million children work, many full-time. At the local situation, children are sent to agriculture fields and grazing animal in particular. CREED identified and gathered a number of such children and explained to them the importance of education. Created awareness among their parents on providing low cost nutrition to their children, as most of them are undernourished. Demos were presented with the help of Anganwadi workers and provided nutrition to many children below 14 years.

Impact

• Hundreds of children returning to schools and continuing education
• Hundreds of mothers trained on low-cost nutrition and are practicing in their homes

Children’s health is getting improved