Nanhe Pakshi is now a registered NGO under

the societies registration act 1860. In Nanhe

Pakshi, our aim is to provide free education
and to spread awareness among rural/slum
people about health and hygiene.

Nanhe Pakshi is working on two projects -

Paathshala: we believe education is the
ultimate victory and books are the mightiest
weapon one can hold. Under the project
Paathshala, we aim to inculcate reading habits
among the underprivileged kids. Provide them
free of cost academic assistance through
tuition classes, smart classes, etc. The second
project is Unnati: in Unnati, we aim to make
people aware of the most basic of their needs
- hygiene. Our agendas are to conduct
multiple sanitary napkins workshop,
spreading awareness on public hygiene
through street plays, workshops, etc. and
creating a more healthy society with regular
cleanliness drives, blood donation camps, etc.
 Type Non governmental organisation

Founded In 2018

Founder pallavi kashyap

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The Situation of Underprivileged Children in India

 40% of India’s population is below the age of 18 years which at 400 million is the

world’s largest child population.

 Less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school.

 A little over one-third of all children who enroll in grade one reach grade eight.

 One in every ten children is disabled in India.

 95 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their fifth birthday.

 70 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their first birthday.

 Only 38% of India’s children below the age of 2 years are immunized.

 74% of India’s children below the age of 3 months are anemic.

 More than one in three women in India and over 60% of children in India are

anemic.

 Acute respiratory infections are leading causes of child mortality (30%) followed

by diarrhoea (20%) in India.

 One in every 100 children in India between age group of 0-14 years suffers from

acute respiratory infection.

 Almost one in every five children in India below the age of 14 suffers from

diarrhoea. 30-40% of the India’s population, which is largely economically deprived,

spends over 70% of their total expenditure on food.

 Amongst married women in India today, 75% were under age at the time of their

marriages.

 While one in every five adolescent boys is malnourished, one in every two girls in

India is undernourished.

 23% of India’s children are underweight at birth.

 58% of India’s children below the age of 2 years are not fully vaccinated. And

24% of these children do not receive any form of vaccination.

 More that 50% of India’s children are malnourished.

Educating the underprivileged

THE goal of universal education eludes India even though

there is now a primary school in practically every village. The

rate of dropouts continues to be over 50 per cent. The greatest

casualty in the failure of our education system has been the

girl child - whether in terms of enrolment, retention rates in

primary school or even participation in higher education

relative to the overall enrolment rate.

The residential schoolsWhen it comes to effective education of

children from the backward, rural or tribal areas, special efforts

within the present system have been invariably geared towards

the residential school pattern. State governments have set up

a large number of tribal hostels and ashram schools for tribal

children in Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Navodaya

Vidyalayas, set up in almost every rural district in the country,

constitute the latest government venture in this field. Only few

children made progress beyond the fifth standard (see graph:

Growing down). Due to the inability to cope with exams, most

of the students have failed to get admission to colleges. Even

for training in mechanical skills, this programme was a failure.

Though job reservations for tribals exists, the qualified

humanpower is limited or is unavailable.