How We Can Help Underprivileged Children in India?

1. How We Can Help Underprivileged Children in India?

2. DONATE ONLINE • Donate online to help poor children and underprivileged children in India. Partner with a charity organisation like World Vision India, one of India’s best NGOs. When you help poor children and underprivileged children in India, you help the nation progress and develop exponentially. Donate online to support those in need. • When their firstborn Raj was growing up as a toddler, Raajkumari (33) and her husband, Dharmendra (35) thought their son was simply late to speak, hear and understand. It was only when Raj turned five, that his parents recognized that their son was a child with intellectual disability. • “It was very difficult for us to come to terms with the fact that our son won’t be like other normal children at that time,” says Raajkumari. • Donate online to help poor children like Raj. Underprivileged children in India need your support. • When Raj’s parents were only beginning to understand him, a volunteer from World Vision India visited their home, which was a shack at that time, and informed them about sponsorship.

3. HELP POOR CHILDREN Raj then became a sponsored child. Soon, like dawn breaking through night, Raajkumari and Dharmendra began seeing that their son was only specially-abled and was still able to achieve great things in life. This transformation in their thinking occurred once they began attending meetings conducted by World Vision India in their community for parents of children who are specially-abled. Donate online to help poor children like Raj. Underprivileged children in India need your support. For Raajkumari, the meetings were her source of learning and strength. She says, “I learnt the importance of sending Raj to school irrespective of his reduced learning and grasping capacity. Before he went to school, he would pick up fights. But, ever since he’s going to school, his behaviour has changed. Now he’s almost always in a good mood and doesn’t fight with anyone.” In one of these meetings, Raajkumari learnt that she needed to encourage Raj to play music, which he loved doing, rather than stop him.Donate online to help poor children like Raj.

4. UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN Underprivileged children in Indianeed your support. The journey of bringing up a child who is specially-abled was not easy for Raj’s parents. During the pandemic, Raj was among the many differently-abled children left hopeless with a break in routine from school and notion of seclusion. For Raj, as his mother describes it, ‘it was a sudden shift from doing something that he loved (going to school) to doing nothing at all’. While we all know how ‘being at home’ caused anxiety and depression among many children during the pandemic, children with disabilities were worse affected with no or limited access to online learning. For children like Raj, online learning was not an option for two reasons – his parent’s couldn’t afford a smartphone and he never liked using the mobile phone. Donate online to help poor children like Raj. Underprivileged children in India need your support. Thankfully, in Raj’s case, World Vision India constantly counselled his parents over their mobile phone on helping Raj keep himself active and to continue reading and writing until schools reopened. “Education has surely benefitted my son. He can read what the teacher writes on the board and write it well. So I ensured he kept reading and writing even during the pandemic,” says Dharmendra. Post the second wave of Covid, as soon as the government schools reopened, Raj went back to school. Everyone is observing a progress in Raj’s behaviour and coping capabilities despite the risks to his well-being posed by the pandemic. Donate online to help poor children like Raj. Underprivileged children in India need your support.

5. “I can only thank World Vision India for my son’s development and well-being, despite the pandemic. Volunteers from World Vision India also trained my children on hygiene and sanitation. Not only that, through World Vision India’s meetings, I learnt the importance of a disability certificate and birth certificate for my son. I recently got them and soon I’ll receive a pension for my son every month,” says Raajkumari.Donate online to help poor children like Raj. Underprivileged children in Indianeed your support. Like Raj, World Vision India helped over 6000 children with disabilities access their rights in the past year.Through World Vision India’s interventions and sponsorship programme, Raj is experiencing life in all its fullness. Today, he excels in a skill, loves to sit, study and play with friends at school – all thanks to years of positive parenting and timely help. Join us. Together for children. For change. For life.