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The Child In Need Institute (CINI) works to break down the cycle of poverty, malnutrition and ill health and provides basic educational services to some of India's poorest communities. Its vision is of an India where children are able to reach their full potential, regardless of their gender, caste, class or ethnicity.
CINI, founded in India, has over 30 years of experience and a wealth of local knowledge. This ensures that development interventions are culturally appropriate and therefore more sustainable.
CINI takes pride in the way it coordinates its work at the grassroots with local community groups and government bodies.
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This approach improves and strengthens the capacity of existing community organisations and services, bringing about sustainable improvements in health, nutrition, education and child protection. The aim is to complement state services rather than replace them, and initiate progress that will continue after CINI has phased-out from an area.
In particular, CINI empowers women and children at key stages in the life-cycle: childhood, adolescence and pregnancy, with programmes designed to help them lay the foundations for a happy healthy life. Vitally, programmes are implemented by local staff and volunteers, keeping costs lower than organisations dependent on foreign aid workers, and building local skills.
We also endeavour to share successful approaches with other organisations working in related fields. CINI is widely recognised as a leading authority on mother and child nutrition and healthcare in India and has provided training on related issues to major charities such as UNICEF, CARE and CRY, as well as many smaller local NGOs.
In November 2005, the Indian government recognised CINI's outstanding work to help children and the charity received the National Award of Child Welfare. Recipients for this award are chosen on the basis of the quality of their work, its significance in leading the way on improving child welfare in India, and the numbers of children whose lives have been touched.
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Breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty, malnutrition and ill health
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Rehabilitating severely malnourished children and their families
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Preventing child malnutrition by supporting mothers in the last 6 months of pregnancy and the child’s first two years, empowering them to give their children the best possible start in life |
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Helping disadvantaged children access education and child protection services
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Helping child labourers get back into full time education
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Providing shelters for the protection of street-children and evening education centres in red-light areas
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Preventing children from becoming child labourers by ensuring that children from disadvantaged families receive early years educational support and help with the difficult transition to primary school. |
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Director: Anna Taylor
Trustees: Lady Slynn of Hadley (Chairman); Mrs Margaret Stephen (Vice Chairman); Mr Scott Moffat (Hon Treasurer); Mr Witold Pawlak (Hon Secretary); Mrs Paramita Biswas; Mr Mark Clough QC; Mr Dai Jones; Lady Forsyth of Drumlean; Ms Elizabeth Paris; Mrs Toni Shaw; Ms Anne Wheeler; Lady Williams of Mostyn
Patrons: Mr Nasser Azam; Lord Bilimoria CBE DL; Cherie Booth QC; Mr Maneck Dalal OBE; Lord Dholakia OBE; Baroness Flather; Mr Raj Loomba; Professor Morely CBE; Lord Puttnam CBE; Lord Slynn of Hadley; Sir Mark Tully OBE; Sir Peter Wakefield KBE CMG; Lady Young
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