Future ahead

1. Future ahead Child as the point of center

2. Children • They set our Goals and Aspirations. • Hope for our Future. • Healthy child leads to Healthy Youth and Youth, the backbone of our society. • Transformation possible only when we catch them young, and through children.

3. What the Child needs Sports, Games, Art, Cultural Dev Education Healthcare

4. Where to catch them?? • Children 1yr. To 5 yr. Are taken care by family, NCDS programs. Much wanted in ICDS programs. • Children Rural / Urban stay at school for 10years in primary schooling. • Children who can’t continue studies beyond 10th or not entering higher grades may need help on Vocational Trg and placement assistance.

5. Govt. at Schools • Little bit of Education. • Mid day meal some places • No Sports/Games/Cultural Activity • No Laboratory • No Power, No computer Education. • Children being used for Govt. Programs. • No notebooks. • Text books for limited no. of children and very late in academic session. • De-motivated staff though qualified.

6. Solutions • May be many solutions available. • One way to Network, the available resources, and utilize them to the best possible way. • Need someone at the center who needs to work without selfish motto and to just unite forces. • Easy to reach them at school. No need to put in separate effort to gather them.

7. Roles and Priority • Already children > 75 % in India are malnourished, poor, not provided enough healthcare. • The indicators from UNICEF, etc. may sound good but don’t reach the child as they are implemented through third party agencies and the local Govt. • Despite centuries of advocacy, nothing much materializes. • Many players in each sector Education, Health, Development of children are working but the efforts are never united.

8. Partners in the game • Some resources may be localized but best to attract them and bring to the front. • Enough good and corporate NGOs already in the front offering their services. • Corporate CSRs not being utilized to the full extent, where they can be silent partners.

9. Let’s join hands Educational Foundations – • Naandi, • Akshara, • Ajim Premji’s, • British,

10. Healthcare • Dental Super specialty supported by Colgate etc. • Gen Health – Apollo, Image, 104, Care, local, Redcross, Lion’s, Rotary • Eye Care – LVPEI, Shankar’s, Lion’s, Rotary, • Individual specialist doctors in all major cities. • Pharma support by Reddy’s, Aurobindo, NATCO, etc.

11. Necessities • Advocacy at top most level • Funding – already existing players seed money and their interest to take part in same events of their interest collectively. • Support from Govt. not to interfere with these actvities and spoil the show.

12. Development • IBM Kidsmart – Easy Learn Comp Edu. • One Laptop per child…. • Camlin etc. for art and craft support • Nestle, Boost, Horlicks etc. for sponsorship of Sports, Games and other activities.

13. How easy is this?? • Small task or big task, some how needs to be piloted and taken ahead. • Already all the players are into the game and serving but efforts need to be channelized. • Child gets benefited tremendously. • Problem – No individual NGO or partner gets highlighted. Effort is collective.

14. Why not in SF? • Made the plans even in SF itself but Satyam wasn’t getting any SHOW value. • OPLC, Kidsmart, etc. may get popular Satyam was loosing on existence. • Our Goebbels ASM never realized the value for playing the core role at center and utilizing the services of other partners excepting the 6P 5R and 6 sigma. Planning for the end beneficiary was our motto, but how much money will be back to our kitty was more important. Service how useful was not important for us.