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“From one mum to another: 1,000 Days to transform a life”
The title of the campaign combines our intention to invite the British public to sponsor a mother in India for £10 per month for 33 months, with medical research published in The Lancet (2008) which shows that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from conception, is a critical period for development.
Around 6,000 children die in India every day, the highest rate of infant mortality anywhere in the world, and women in India are 80 times more likely to die in childbirth than in the UK. Most of these deaths are easily preventable with the most basic improvements.
We aim to change that using our experienced team of health specialists who work in some of the poorest areas of India but we urgently need your help to extend the reach of our programme.
Sponsor a mother
By sponsoring an Indian woman for just £10 per month from the start of her pregnancy, you could be making the difference between life and death, not only for that mother, but for her unborn child too.
Your sponsorship will pay for regular, life-saving, visits by our health workers throughout a woman’s pregnancy and beyond. Our health workers identify dangerous conditions, such as pre-eclampsia, during pregnancy and advise women and their families on the best course of action, including referring them to a hospital where necessary. Health workers also encourage women to give birth in hospital, rather than at home, further reducing the risk of death during childbirth.
But the support you give, and which we deliver, does not end there. We also provide nutrition to women and children, helping to combat chronic malnutrition and low birth weights, which both have far-reaching consequences for children’s development, educational achievement and life-chances.
The next step is to protect children against common diseases in the short to medium term which is why CINI provides essential vaccinations to the children of poor families.
The final step is to set children up for a long-term future which is better than that of their parents. The key to this is education. That is why CINI provides educational materials to families and encourages them to send their children, male and female, to school rather than out to work to earn money for the household.
In this way, we aim to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty which condemns the children of poor families to a life of back-breaking labour from a young age, without education or hope for the future. The cycle is perpetuated when they go on to have children of their own, often at a young age. Access to education for all children breaks this cycle because it provides them with the tools and the aspiration for a better life than their parents.
Your sponsorship pays for all of this and more. Please visit our ‘Get Involved’ page to find out more about how you can help by sponsoring a mother in India this Mother’s Day (March 18).
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Child In Need Institute (CINI) has received welcome recognition from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for its work combating malnutrition and mortality among India's poorest people.
The WHO honoured the charity with its award for Excellence in Primary Health Care after researching the work of more than 4,000 institutions, working across 17 Indian cities.
The award was presented to CINI director Dr Samir Chaudhuri by Indian health and family welfare minister Mr Sudip Bandhopadhya at the Taj Palace in New Delhi on December 22.
CINI, the parent charity of Child In Need India (CINI UK) has been working to combat the worst effects of poverty, such as infant and maternal mortality, for more than 37 years.
The charity was given the National Award for Child Welfare in 1985 and again in 1994 by the Indian president.
It was founded in 1974 by Dr Chaudhuri, a paediatrician, as a small clinic in Kolkata to treat malnourished children and has grown into one of India's most successful NGOs.
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Mr Bandhopadhya said the onus was on individual Indian states to increase the health of the entire nation.
"Indians today have become more health conscious....I am glad to be a part of this endeavor," he added.
Also present at the awards ceremony was Lombard General Insurance CEO Mr Bhargav Dasgupta.
He said: "Today India faces several healthcare challenges but, through these awards, we were able to identify truly exceptional work by non-profit organisations."
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