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Building relationships projects in India support everyone's right to listen and be heard
Livelihood projects in India support everyone's right to achieve a basic income
Health projects in India support the right of all children to grow up healthy
Learning projects in India support everyone's basic right to an education
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Why Plan works in India: quick facts

  • Nearly one in ten children die before age five
  • One in two children under five years old are underweight
  • Six in every ten girls don't go to secondary school
  • Two out of three children don't have access to adequate sanitation


Boy at Plan health camp, India South Asia floods: Plan continues to help affected communities
The floods that hit India, Bangladesh and Nepal in August 2007 and left millions homeless have been receding - but life is still a struggle for the survivors

Click here to read more A young girl's questions can change the world
A child’s natural tendency to question their surroundings, can trigger real, long-lasting change

Life changes for Trinathbasti women
Read about how some women from Orissa in India became community leaders, breaking with a tradition where they were kept hidden away from society

I was a member of the world family of children
Read about the experiences of Shubasandhya, a child from India, who recently attended a 'children as partners' conference in Australia

A new generation of readers in Deodurg Taluk
Access to education for many children in rural India is a luxury not available to them. Plan is starting to address this by offering 'supplementary schooling' in areas will high illiteracy rates

Click here to read more The Gender Gap
Plan works closely with communities to ecourage the role of women in Indian society, where there is a wide gender gap in literacy, employment, and mortality

Country statistics

Country: INDIA
Population: 1,065,462,000 (2003)
Capital City: New Delhi
National Language: Hindi
Per capita income: US$ 530/year (2003)
Life expectancy: 64 years (2003)
Access to safe water: 86% (2002)
Adequate sanitation facilities: 30% (2002)
Under 5 Mortality Rate: 87/1,000 live births (2003)

Source: State of the World's Children Report 2005 (published by UNICEF)


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