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Recognition And Awards

o CHILDLINE India was awarded the ‘Highest Pledge Raising NGO' at the Mumbai Marathon held on 20th of January 2008. This year a large number of people ran for CHILDLINE and raised funds for CHILDLINE. They were visible with their bright green CHILDLINE T Shirts and their CHILDLINE flags and banners.

o 10 corporate teams as well as companies like Mphasis, DSP Merrill Lynch, L&T, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company, Star TV, Sanofi Aventis, British Gas, India Bulls and Axis Bank also ran for CHILDLINE. There were also four dream runners – Queenie Dhody, Mr Mihir Dhosi, Mr Farrokh Kavarana and Mr Arijit Sengupta. Individuals and volunteer groups, ranging from students of Xaviers College to young corporates from Mercer and Future Generali and Mr Shashi Raghunandan from Times of Money all joined in to support CHILDLINE.

o A team from CHILDLINE India Foundation and CHILDLINE Mumbai including children, ran the Dream Run, while shouting slogans about CHILDLINE 1098 and creating awareness about the service.

o CHILDLINE India Foundation has been awarded the National award in the Medium sized NGOs category by the Resource Alliance Indian NGO Award for 2007. CHILDLINE was the regional finalist from Western Region. At the national level the award was a tie between Banyan Tree and CIF.The process for selection took nearly three months and involved submissions, interviews, evaluations at our office, etc.

o Chosen as finalists for the Bombay Community Public Trust award, 2004 for excellence among voluntary organizations in Mumbai which had a theme of Knowledge sharing & Project Documentation

o CHILDLINE India Foundation was among the top three finalists for the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2004 at the Global Development Network's Sixth Annual Development Conference at Dakar, Senegal


o The Agfund Award, 2003 - CHILDLINE received the Agfund International prize for pioneering developmental Project in 2003 in recognition of its distinguished role in the field of protection of child against abuse and negligence