A Child Needs Your Attention For A Better World‏

Respected Global Citizen,

Hunger kills 9 million people every year and 24,000 people every day and out of them 18,000 are children. 60% of the children in India go to sleep hungry every night. Half the children in the age group of 6 to 14 years do not have access to primary education. We feel, by subjecting children to hunger, we rob them of their God given potential.. India's progress in reducing child malnutrition is very slow.

The proven path to helping the poor is by educating them. Providing food works as an important factor that encourages education; this in turn enables overall development transforming lives and communities.

A hungry child cannot be expected to have an urge for education. We provide nutritious meals to children - with a vision to encourage education amongst the poor.

Visit us at www.iskconhelpsmile.org

Law for Action

Many impoverished children performed poorly in school due to short attention spans associated with extreme hunger. Other children either did not enroll in school, or dropped out at a young age choosing to seek work during the school day to earn money to feed themselves and their families.

Education can empower a child to explore his potentials, earn a decent living and build a better future. The Government of India has made education for children in the age group of 6 to 14 years compulsory, but poverty restricts the under privileged children from getting the full value of the educational experience. Hunger obstructs education in yet another way. It affects clear thinking and productive working in children. Also medical science has proved the most of the cognitive developments occur in the age group of 6 and 12 years. Hunger and malnutrition during these years impair cognitive developments thus permanently crippling child for life time.

Earlier, school meals was irregular and in many places non-existent. Responding to pressure from the people, the Supreme Court of India passed an order on November 28, 2001 which mandated: "Cooked midday meal is to be provided in all the government and government-aided primary schools in all the states."

ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION partakes this responsibility.
The Birth of ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION
Thus evolved ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION a not-for-profit organization .

bringing smiles back into the lives of so many young children.

Visit us at www.iskconhelpsmile.org
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