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.