Getting To Know International Contacts

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s (CHIP) is designed to explore the differences and gaps in poverty internationally and to initiate commitment to fight against childhood poverty. While researching CHIP, I came a across information on poverty in India. The numbers of children living in poverty are enormous. About 62 million children under the age of five live in poverty and are considered malnourished. India has the largest amount of children who are working and out of school. It is hard to fathom, that children are forced to work at a very young age to support themselves and their families. Unfortunately this large amount, consist of mostly girls.  Unfortunately gender inequality continues to have affects on many young girls in India. As a result, many young girls do not have the same opportunities given to young boys. This results in uneducated girls, who are faced with poverty from generation to generation.

Although the issue of poverty continues to affect many children in India, their are three types of programs that are currently working to assist children living in poverty, rural employment creation and infrastructure development programs; self-employment; and food subsidy programs. Programs like these are developed to help children and their families in poverty. Although there have been great strides to prevent childhood poverty, the struggle continues.

 

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