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=**__ Specific Topic __** =  Poverty is one top issue that the world is facing. Children are the only hope for the humanitarian race to survive in this planet. Therefore, our group has chosen the childhood poverty in Rajasthan as our specific topic. This topic is really important because India plays a major role in financial activities since there are lots of industries there. The problem is that even though India is an NIC (Newly Industrializing Country) there is still a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The rich is getting richer while the poor is getting poorer. Rajasthan is the biggest and one of the poorest states in India. We would like to solve the childhood poverty issues over there, so that poverty will end for the next generation in Rajasthan.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.aidindia.org/main/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> AID has lots of NGO partners who work on different issues in different parts of India. AID is basically the main page for all of the NGOs that are improving India’s development. Seva Mandir (One of the NGO group in AID) is helping children in Rajasthan by improving their educational environment. They run non formal educations centers, literacy camps, and educational interventions in urban slums. This can improve the education in India, therefore the next generation can have better jobs and the poverty could end. The thing we like about their program is that they did a survey on 22 primary schools and they have also helped lots of children in these schools to go to urban parts of India for better education. This is a great idea because the fees for this project are cheaper than the fees to actually build a school. The questions that I have about this organization are that how they got the money to do this project and will this organization expand to help other countries’ development. Lastly, we could be involved with this organization by donating money to this organization and become volunteers to help out the poverty in India. =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__ Organization 2 __** =

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.vhai.org/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI)  is a non-profit, registered society formed in the year 1970. It is a federation of 27 State Voluntary Health Associations, linking together more than 4500 health and development insti  tutions across the country. They are also one of the largest health and development networks in the world. We like lots of projects that this organization holds. Most of them are simple and easy but we think that they will work pretty well. They have constructed a questionnaire for school students on healthy diets and they also provide water and sanitation infrastructure in schools that are in rural areas. We like these ideas because they can help poor children improve their hygiene and they can also teach the children in Rajasthan how to eat healthy. They even provide water; a basic need to survive, in Rajasthan so this can reduce the death rate of children from dehydration. Lastly, sometimes, this organization provides so medical needs in rural parts of India including vaccinations. This could make people in Rajasthan, who have a lack of nutrients more immune to certain diseases. The question which I have about these projects is that who are actually volunteering to create and work on these projects? I think the way that we can be like this organization is that we could use their idea of creating a questionnaire for children in SAS. Even though there are lots of posters in our cafeteria which promote a healthy diet, many students still ignore them. We think that we could make a questionnaire which actually brings awareness to a healthy diet.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Case Study and Related Links Information for Wiki**__ = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The specific topic that our group has decided to focus on is the child poverty in Rajasthan. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Which organization did you choose to focus on and why? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have decided to focus on the organization AID because it is one of the biggest organizations in India for India's development. It is a four star charity and it is rank 6 in the 10 charities worth watching. This organization is basically the page with most of the NGO's working in India. This organization has lots of NGO partners who work in India for different issues but mainly poverty. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Rajasthan, they are helping poor children for a better education. They are also improving the agriculture system there and organized vaccination events. By helping the children improved their education systems combats poverty because when the children get better education, then they will get better jobs so they can make a living for their family. By improving the agricultural system could make people there plants more food anf therefore they can earn more money with it and get a better nutrition. This could also reduce the death rate from starvation. Lastly, the vaccination programs could reduce the death rate from diseases such as HIV/ AIDs. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. What are some of the things you like about their program? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like their program because although they are quite simple, they are really effective. They are dividing groups to work on different city in India. This shows that this campaign has a big influence on reducing the amount of poor people in India. They have lots of workers and supporters that this organization is very supportive and well done. This has lots of informations that tell people about the problems of poverty. I like this program because it is well done and also has a great influence on preventing this issue. People here are eager to reduce the death rate of starvation and they work very hard. They also have parts that people can get involved to donate money for the poor. They have videos and things they do to capture people's eyes that they get interested being part of this campaign and work on it. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our group can let people know more about this site. Since this site has a lot of informations, people can get a better idea of how serious the problem is right now. We can't really join the site and really get involved into the campaign to actually work, but we can advertise about this site and let people know more about our issue. =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Related tasks:__** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Articles:__** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For a girl in rural India, education is a difficult pursuit **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anuradha Rathore knows of no women doctors in her native village or its surrounding area. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Among her 100 classmates at the Sampurnanand Medical College in Jodhpur, she is one of 30 females. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 20-year-old medical student grew up in Kansera, a remote village in Rajasthan, India's largest state. At that time, children were able to go to school only up to the fifth year of primary school, Rathore said. "Nothing beyond that." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the last couple of years, educational opportunities have improved there: A coed school now goes up to grade 8. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While India's economy booms, educational opportunities remain out of grasp for large numbers of rural poor, especially girls, according to international agencies and researchers. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although government programs are in place to address education and poverty, they have failed to deliver on a large scale because of a lack of resources and accountability, a 2005 report by the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre found. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For more information about this article, click [|here].

__**Help A Child: You Might Want Christian Charity Donations**__ We have all viewed the heart wrenching commercials asking us to sponsor a needy child. We have all heard about child poverty in India, Latin America and other third world countries. Some individuals may want more information about sponsoring a child in need before handing in their hard earned money. This overview can be helpful.

There are religion-based as well as secular charities to choose from for giving donations. There are child charity for many major religions of the world while others like the United Nations and other international organizations have no religious affiliation at all.

Some people often look to not-for-profit organizations when deciding to sponsor a child in need in India. Donations to non-profit organizations are almost always tax-deductible. Furthermore, non-profit groups are audited by the government, so their financial records are closely monitored. However, each group makes their own choices as to the outlaying of the funds they receive from contributors. Make sure your donations go to an organization with whose practices you find to be comfortable.

When you choose to sponsor a child, you will of course want the money to go directly to the care of that child instead of watching it spent on marketing or excessive staff salaries. To help you avoid such shady operations, go to online charity evaluation websites, which can tell you what part of a non-profit group's funds are spent aiding children and how much is spent as overhead. Evaluation websites also provide information about the age and size of different relief organizations.

For more about this article click [|here].

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Organizations people can get involved in: [|The Hunger Site] [|AID] [|VHAI] [|Grameen Foundation] [|RDI]