FACTS

Facts About Relief India Trust

There are a number of facts to know about India’s physically and the underprivileged children, the child sex workers who work on a commercial basis, the girl child, the mentally challenged children and those involved in child labour.

• Out of one thousand Indian born children around seventy of them die before completing one year.
• Respiratory infection in its most acute form is experienced in one child out of 100 children between zero to fourteen years of age in India.
• As per official estimates, 17 million children are found working and out of these at least eighty percent of them are found working in the five Indian metropolitan cities.
• Illiteracy prevails in 71% of these children.
• Three percent of the children forced into sex trade are challenged physically and mentally.
• Malnourishment is common amongst at least fifty percent of the children in India.
• Approximately eighty percent of child labour is involved in agricultural work.
• In India more than sixty percent children and out of three women, one woman is found to be anaemic.
• Even before attaining four years of age, sexual abuse takes place in one out of four girls.
• Each year, five lakh children are forced into the sex trade to work as sexual workers.
• Hardly fifty percent of children between 6 to 18 years of age have gone to school.
• Out of 10 children, one is disabled in the country.
• At the time of birth around twenty three percent of the children are below average weight.
• Due to discrimination in gender, one of every sixth girl child has to face death.
• Each year as comparison to boys, three lakh girls die in India.
• In India around 25% of the children below eighteen years of are victimized by sexual exploitation on a commercial basis.
• Around ninety percent of the children work in the rural regions of India.
• The risk of abuse and violence is faced by a large number of physically and mentally challenged girls.
• Illiteracy is seen in 53% of the girls between the age group of five to nine years of age.

Facts About Underprivileged children in India, Education, The Girl Child, Child Labour, Child commercial sex workers, Mentally/ physically challenged children…..

• One in every ten children is disabled in India.
• 70 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their first birthday.
• More than one in three women in India and over 60% of children in India are anemic.
• 90% working children are in rural India.
• 17 million children in India work as per official estimates.
• 80% of these are found in the 5 metros.
• One in every 100 children in India between age group of 0-14 years suffers from acute respiratory infection.
• 23% of India’s children are underweight at birth.
• More that 50% of India’s children are malnourished.
• 50% of Indian children aged 6-18 do not go to school.
• Every sixth girl child’s death is due to gender discrimination.
• 71% of them are illiterate.
• 500,000 children are forced into this trade every year.
• 3% of India’s children are mentally/physically challenged.
• Mentally/physically challenged girls are at a particular risk to violence and abuse.
• 1 out of 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 4.
• 3 lakh more girls than boys die every year.
• 53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate.
• 25% of the victims of commercial sexual exploitation in India are below 18 years of age.
• About 80% of child labour is engaged in agricultural work.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. To be a volunteer with Relief India Trust what do I need to do?

Get in touch with our Volunteer Actions Coordinators based in your city or the city closest to you. Share with us your interest areas and contact details.

• Email / Write to us
• Call us

We would be happy to invite you to our Volunteer orientation meetings held at regular intervals. It will give you an idea of who we are, what we do and what YOU can do as a Relief India Trust volunteer.

2. Can I teach children or spend time with them? What does volunteering in Relief India Trust involve?

While planning out an activity we ask ourselves three questions

Will my action help:
1. in bringing about permanent change in the lives of children
2. address the root cause behind child rights violation
3. in making the state accountable towards children and their rights

Share your ideas and together we will arrive at the “RIGHT CHOICE” that will bring about permanent and positive change in the lives of children.

3. Will my single / individual voice help the countless others to build pressure for change?
How can we bring about permanent change in children’s lives?
Will campaigning make a difference to children in a permanent way?
Yes YOUR VOICE counts!
We believe that we must try to enable a situation where rights for all children are ensured in a permanent way. This means impacting and influencing the body that can reach out to all the children in our country – viz. the government. YOUR opinion has the power to influence the government and Campaigning is a powerful way to build public opinion.
For instance:

• You find out that children in your locality are out of school as there are no teachers in it.
• You share this information with more people to lend more voice to your demand for the recruitment of teachers
• You ALL knock the doors of the relevant government authority demanding the recruitment of teachers
• You ALL have made a difference by getting the entire system to work
• You ALL have, by ensuring that the system works, enabled children beyond your locality as well to have access to quality education.
• You ALL have touched the lives of so many children

It might take time but the change that it brings about is permanent and positive.

4. Are these group efforts or individual efforts that volunteers get involved in?
Volunteer campaigns are all group efforts and nothing is done in isolation. In fact, all our campaigns somewhere merge under a common umbrella of themes for which we all advocate. But yes, that doesn’t do away with flexibility of work in terms of time and the way you would like to be involved.

5. How much time do I have to give?
Volunteerism in Relief India Trust is flexible in nature i.e. there are no fixed hours of working. However, it is a long term engagement. Once you join/ start a campaign, it becomes YOUR campaign and you can give it as much time as you like to make it effective and impactful.

6. How many times a week does one need to volunteer? / Can I volunteer part time?
Most volunteer activities take place on the weekends, and many allow for work to be done in your own time (research/ studies/ networking online/ updating the volunteer group etc). Most of our volunteers are full time employees or students who manage their volunteer action during as per their convenience.

7. Can professionals be involved in campaigns?
Yes – provided there is a willingness to engage and contribute to the campaign positively. E.g. If you are a creative professional such as photographer, film maker, dancer, musician, you could use your skills to mobilize similar talents around you and use this skill to advocate for children and their cause with Relief India Trust’s support.

8. Can I work from home?
You could chose a volunteering option that allows you to work from home, though many of our volunteers also do field work in order to stay in touch with ground realities8.

9. Will I get a certificate?
We sincerely believe that volunteers at Relief India Trust work due to their sheer interest and conviction to bring about a positive change in the lives of the children. Hence their commitment is not dependent on certificates. However, usually after at least a year long active engagement as a committed volunteer, we provide one with a certificate or a letter of acknowledgement from Relief India Trust if required.

10. Will I be paid if I become a volunteer?
No. However, work related expenses like photocopying, conveyance and other expenses incurred can be reimbursed.

11. Will I get an identity card?
We don’t issue identity cards. If there is any specific work/assignment that requires your identity proof of being a Relief India Trust volunteer, an authorization letter is given, which is valid for a certain time period.

Volunteers at Relief India Trust

How Volunteers Can Participate In Relief India Trust Relief Programs

If there is a volunteer interested in offering services at Relief India Trust then all that is needed is to get in touch with the Volunteer Actions Coordinators based within the city or the nearest city. Volunteers will need to share their areas of interest and details of contact with the Coordinators. People interested can either send in an email or call up the Relief India Trust.

Orientation meetings are held for volunteers at regular intervals. During the meetings, interested volunteers get an idea on the kind of services offered at Relief India Trust. A volunteer can help bring about a permanent change in children’s lives, address the main cause behind violation of children’s rights, and also make the state accountable towards rights of children whenever needed. Those interested in bringing about a difference in the lives of underprivileged, physically and mentally challenged children can certainly participate as volunteer at Relief India Trust.

Every voice counts while campaigning to make a difference to children’s lives. Governments can be influenced and for building opinion of the public campaigning can be done in the most powerful way. Every person could do his or her bit by identifying children who do not attend school due to lack of teachers. Volunteers can voice their demand for new teacher recruitment even if it means contacting authorities within the government.

The entire system can be brought to task for impacting lives of children in a positive way. Efforts put in by volunteers will enable the underprivileged children get higher quality education. A good deed to society on the whole is done by touching the lives of needy children. Changes brought about are positive and permanent, even if it takes some time.

It is not the effort of just one single person that counts at Relief India Trust. It is a group effort in volunteer campaigns. It is not possible for anyone to do anything in isolation. Under a number of schemes within a common umbrella all the campaigns of Relief India Trust merge in totality. The volunteer services that can be offered are very flexible in nature. For those interested in working with the Trust, there are actually no fixed working hours. With feasibility of time, services can be rendered accordingly.

Rehabilitation Centre

 Our Doctors Panel

Relief India Trust team comprises of over 20-25 members with regular and visiting staff. These includes Medical Consultants, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists , Speech Therapists, Special Educators, Psychologists, Educationists, Social Workers.

Special Education

In Special Education Relief India Trust observe and explore individuals who have problems or special talents in thinking, seeking , hearing, speaking and socializing. it may include school based or home based program for children according to their special needs.

Medical Consultation

Relief India Trust offer free medical consultation for disabled children and providing assistance for critical care treatments like corrective rehabilitative surgeries, orthopedic surgeries, Botox injections,  eye surgeries, cochlear implant in various leading hospitals.

 Physiotherapy

 The department of physiotherapy gives opportunity to patients to regain control over their lives. Many patients suffering from pain and functional impairment are able to find hope and recovery. The focus of our physiotherapy program is to improve the individual’s quality of life by alleviating pain and increasing tolerance  for activity.

 Occupational Therapy

 The department of occupational therapy promotes health, wellness, productivity and quality of life by teaching skills and functions essential for a productive , satisfying and self sufficient life. Our therapists are expertise in moving vestibular integration, strengthen muscles, develop joints and body alignment.

Relief India Trust Transportation Facility

Relief India Trust provides free transportation for the disabled children in Delhi-NCR to its Rehabilitation center

Relief India Trust and NGO, not only conducts blood donation camps, free health checkups but they also provide education to the poor, lifting up the life of the rural people and taking all sorts of efforts to eradicate illiteracy. At present they are more involved with disabled children all over India. The trust provides free transportation for the disabled children in Delhi-NCR to its rehabilitation centers. The trust has a fleet of buses and vans to transport the disabled children. There are other private organizations who partner the Relief India Trust in providing special vehicles that can provide comfort to the disabled children who need special seating arrangement.

There are volunteers, both men and women, who accompany each disabled child in the vehicle to the rehabilitation centers and back to Delhi NCR. They spend the entire day with the children at the centre where certain disabled children are fed and taken care of. The organization gets its funds from huge companies and even private individuals who generously donate to the organization at regular intervals. There are shows and events organized and the collection of which is donated to the organization. The trust is in its peak developing stage and is spread all over India.

There are parents of the disabled children who have voluntarily formed a pool by utilizing their personal vehicles on weekly basis to transport the children to and from the rehabilitation centre. Thus families who can afford have given donation to the Relief India Trust to provide more transportation to help the children. None of the disabled children have to pay for the transportation charges.

Aids and HIV Relief

To address issues related to AIDs and HIV support programs are offered in a full range. In financial management and results of the programs, the NGO designs, evaluates and manages comprehensive prevention of HIV, support programs and care. Desired accountability is offered. To other NGOs, governments of developing nations, agencies in the private sector, required managerial and technical assistance as well as training is provided.
Relief India Trust functioning with an objective of health development and well-being of children infected and affected with HIV and AIDS in India. Relief India Trust is to provide institutional care homes for the children abandoned and orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Distribution of Clothes

Where programs for food relief are carried out, blankets and clothes are also distributed by this NGO, free of cost. You can check out the photos on the website to get an idea. Many of the poor children come in old shorts and some have hardly any clothing to wear. They are Relief India Trust.

Relief India Trust Organized cloth distribution in various area. At most care was taken by the members to distribute clothes to the poor, who are in dire need of clothes. Earlier, clothes were collected by organizing a cloth donation camp

 

Distribution of Free Medicines

The poor and needy children are distributed free medication in the relief programs offering medicine. It has been decided that in future too, people will be provided with free services. The needy and the poor in rural India are also provided with medical and surgical treatment. This free of cost treatment is provided by a small team of medical volunteers at Relief India Trust.

What Relief India Trust do

Relief India Trust is involved in a number of relief programs for the betterment of the lives of poor Indian children. The Trust takes up appropriate measures and adopts suitable programs for rehabilitating people in different circumstances. Relief India Trust plays an important part in protecting the global environment as well. A lot of awareness is created amongst the Indian people on deadly diseases like AIDs, Cancer, HIV, etc. for which camps are set up and run all over the country from time to time.

Children living in the slums are also provided nutritious food, medicines and clothing free of cost. The other objective of the Trust is the instituting of Secondary, Primary and Middle level schools for offering free education to the favela, poor and street children.

All the support and indoctrination required are offered by Relief India Trust while addressing epidemics related to AIDs and HIV. To agencies in the private sector, governments of developing nations and non-government organizations, the Trust provides white-collar and technical assistance as well as all-embracing training. The Trust also designs, manages and evaluates all-inclusive prevention of HIV and AIDS, offers support and care sequencers and also provides answer-ability in management of finances and the results of the programs, both.

Some of the relief measures taken by Relief India Trust are :

Distribution of Free Medicines

Distribution of Clothes

 Aids and HIV Relief

Objectives of Relief India Trust

The main objective of Relief India Trust is organizing relief and carrying on measures for rehabilitation in disasters and calamities. This is guaranteed in alleviating losses as well as distress caused due to riots, fires, floods, wars, earthquakes hostilities, cyclones, wars, epidemics, and famines. Miseries of other kinds, sufferings of people in different parts of India are mitigated. Besides this efforts are made to provide financial aid and assistance of other kinds to them.

• Awareness about some of the deadliest diseases like AIDs, cancer and HIV is created amongst the people by running and setting up camps all through the country.
• Slum, poor and street children are provided education free of cost at secondary, primary and higher secondary levels at the schools established by Relief India Trust.
• In the remote villages, facilities for drinking water are also provided.
• Financial assistance, food, clothing and medication and needs of other kinds are fulfilled of the victims facing the calamity.
• In various parts of rural India, medical camps are run free of cost regularly.
• To safeguard the environment at global level efforts are made in enhancing the civil society’s role.
• Children from the slum are provided nutritious food and that too free of cost.
• Relief India Trust NGO also implements, schemes for the welfare of women.

About US

The main objective of the Relief India Trust is to facilitate better quality of life in all its realms through community mobilization, participatory governance based on sustainable natural resource management. Thus community participation, education, protection and promotion of environment and social capital are central to the activities of the organization.

 

Emphasis on children and environment are major areas of attention of Relief India Trust action research interventions that provide space for the participation and engagement of the stakeholders in analysis and change of the conditions forming the milieu of the people with whom Relief India Trust works.

Relief India Trust prepared a good number of educational material for child labour turned students at different levels (according to their age and learning levels) and texts for marginalized communities in the society. Our strengthened its educational programmes by capacity building of (VEC) Village Education Committees, self-help groups and CBOs to protect child rights, literacy for adolescent girls and motivating rural youth to take part in all literacy programmes.

Besides, Relief India Trust continues participation in networks, campaigns and movements to facilitate peoples’ development especially in the areas of child rights, education,women rights, participatory governance and community management of natural resources.