WHY INDIA?

• 30% of the world’s extremely poor children live in India

• Each year, 1.4 million children in India die before their 5th birthday

• Nearly 25% of children have no access to education

• 4% of children are stunted and suffering from malnutrition

• Child labor persists within the country, keeping school-age children from going to school

• Children from rural areas, urbans slums, scheduled castes, and tribal communities often suffer
  from malnutrition, access to quality health services, child marriage, lack of sanitation
  facilities, hygiene, and access to improved water

• India is highly prone to flooding, droughts, earthquakes and refugee flows that