CHILDLINE 1098 Service » Media Backgrounder
Children of India
Children under 18 account for 43% of India's population is nearly
447 million of which nearly 40% or about 178 million are marginalized
with various causes- poverty, abuse, exploitation, disease, illiteracy,
malnourishment, disability, impairment, conflicts, calamities
and neglect. CHILDLINE 1098 is the link for these children to
avail necessary services and assert their rights.
With the world's largest population of Children, India has the
dismal record of providing under 5% of its annual Union budget
for children- and that includes education, health, and development.
Child Protection receives under 1% of the Union Budget. With
a Trillion dollar GDP, India still provides less than 0.01% of
its GDP in annual budgets to children- currently targeted to
be under Rs 10 per child per year.
Click on http://www.childlineindia.org.in/child-in-india.htm to
know more on Children in India .
Child Protection and Child Rights
India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of Children 1990 (UNCRC) and offers the following rights
to Children, in addition to their rights as Indian Citizens:
- The Right to Life and Survival,
- The Right to Protection,
- The Right to Development,
- The Right to Participation.
The essential principles of the UNCRC are: 'Non-discrimination'
(art.2), 'Best Interest of the Child' (art.3) and 'Respect
for views of the Child.'(art.12).
The Right to Protection is fundamental to children. What
is Child Protection? Every child has a right
to protection. This not only includes children who are in difficult
circumstances but also those who are not in any adverse situations.
Child Protection:
• Child Protection refers to protection from violence,
exploitation, abuse and neglect.
• Protecting children from or against any perceived
or real danger/risk to their life, their personhood and childhood.
• Reducing their vulnerability to any kind of harm
and in harmful situations.
• Protecting children against social, psychological
and emotional insecurity and distress.
• Child protection is about protecting every right
of every child.
• Ensuring no child falls out of the social security
and safety net and those who do, receive necessary care and protection
to be brought back into the safety net.
Child Protection ensures the chances to grow up physically and
mentally healthy, confident and self-respecting, and less likely
to abuse or exploit others, including his or her own children.
CHILDLINE 1098 service incorporates in its service delivery
model the critical constructs of Prevention, Intervention and
Rehabilitation with a rights based approach that involves Child
Participation.
Read more on Child Protection and Child Rights click on http://www.childlineindia.org.in/child-protection-child-rights-india.htm .
The CHILDLINE 1098 Service
CHILDLINE 1098 is a national 24 hour, free emergency telephone
helpline and outreach service for children in need of Care and
Protection, operational in 83 cities across 25 States and UTs.
The service logs over 2.3 million calls a Year- as of March 2010
CHILDLINE has serviced over 17 million calls.
CHILDLINE listens, counsels, provides information as well combines
telephone response with direct intervention assistance and has
the capacity to reach children and rescue them within 60 minutes
of receiving a call for help.
Read more about CHILDLINE Service click on http://www.childlineindia.org.in/1098/1098.htm
The PPP with MWCD
The XIth Five year plan has approved the Integrated Child Protection
Scheme (ICPS), India 's first scheme specifically addressing
Child Protection. The XI th Plan goals under the ICPS scheme
are to ensure that the CHILDLINE 1098 service is implemented
in all of the 640 plus districts of India .
CIF is now in a massive expansion mode and hopes to cover nearly
300 districts of India with the CHILDLINE 1098 service over the
next 24 months.
CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF)
CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF) commenced as a registered charity
(NGO) in 1996, developed and runs the CHILDLINE 1098 service
in India . As India 's foremost Child Protection agency, CIF
is recognised as the Mother NGO for the CHILDLINE Service by
the Government of India and operates in a unique social Public-Private-Partnership
(PPP) model with the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
CIF pioneered the CHILDLINE India model with the critical strategies
of: Gaining the trust of children with the telephone as a social
service delivery instrument, linking up with - not duplicating
existing services for children, making the government and Allied
systems organisations (Police/healthcare sector/education sector/Judiciary/Telecom/Media)
active stakeholders in Child Protection and social franchising
partnering local level NGOs CHILDLINE service delivery with the
4C approach (Connect, Collaborate, Catalyze and Communicate).
Click on http://www.childlineindia.org.in/cif.htm to
know more about CIF
CHILDLINE Se Dosti Campaign
The CHILDLINE Se Dosti Campaign is about taking Child Protection
to the community. CHILDLINE Se Dosti Campaign aimed at to involve
the community by understanding and recognising CP/CR and be pro-active
in reducing vulnerability of children to risks. We want the issue
of CHILD PROTECTION and Child Rights to resonate with people
across all walks of life.
The CHILDLINE Se Dosti Campaign is about generating
a Million Dosts of CHILDLINE - individuals
from all walks of life who will be recognised as CP Ambassadors
and empowered with knowledge about CP/CR. Dosts who will
willingly undertake the responsibility of being a Dost to
Children of India.
We hope that every CHILDLINE Dost will spread awareness about
CP/CR and create awareness about CHILDLINE 1098 so that any child
in need of care and protection can always reach a didi or a bhaiya
at the end of a phone call.
The campaign is orchestrated through a combination of structured
events coordinated by CIF and along with our partners across
83 cities. All of these events will happen in the week of November
8 to 14- to coincide with India 's Children's Day on Nov 14 th
.
A CHILDLINE Dost is registered through a simple
interaction on CIF's website that requires every potential
Dost to take an ePledge and fill a form. The Dost will then
receive, through email, a ECertificate of Dosti and will
then be regularly invited to participate /volunteer in various
activities. The Dost will also receive eNewsletters and will
be empowered to become a Child Protection Ambassador.
Visit http://childlineindia.org.in/1098/childline-se-dosti.htm to
know more about CHILDLINE Se Dosti.
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