CHETNA an NGO

An NGO Working With And For Children In Delhi & Beyond

About Chetna

CHETNA is an NGO working towards the Empowerment of Street and Working Children in a participatory approach. They are given a chance to develop some understanding of their situation, their rights and opportunities. At CHETNA, we provide education, counseling, recreational activities, and a framework to get organized

Our Vision

To achieve sa child-friendly society which ensures the rights to Survival, Protection, Development and Participation.

We Believe

That children live in difficult circumstances not by choice but by compulsion. Poverty, Urbanization, shrinking landholdings, a dysfunctional education system and several such social phenomena are to be blamed for their difficult situation.

We Strive

To make underprivileged children’s lives more than mere survival. And YOU can join us in his cause!

CHETNA in Media

2009: CHETNA contributed to an international research project by Anti-Slavery International on forced child begging. A summary and analysis of the findings "Begging for Change"
February 25, 2009: A screening of the film "Slumdog Millionaire" presented to street and working children by CHETNA and their reaction is covered by Telegraph India "Street "seal" on Slumdog dark life"
September 22, 2008: The Indian Express writes on a CHETNA-devised cooperation program for child rag pickers and the police "Lajpat Nagar, police turn to ragpickers for help"
January 15, 2008: A report by the Disability India Network on the questions arising after the scandal (see second article) "NHRC seeks answers"
December 10, 2007: The Hindu reports on the event "Child denied admission to Lajpat Nagar shelter home"
April 26, 2006: CHETNA’s efforts in helping underprivileged children obtain education are portrayed in The Hindu. "A dream come true for street kids"
December 2010: NEW DELHI: Muskan and Khushi are twins born to parents who make ends meet by selling old clothes at the Raghubir Nagar wholesale market in west Delhi. Though under the law, birth registration is a must and birth certificates should be issued free of cost, Read more: Poor pay a price for birth documents - The Times of India "Poor pay a price for birth documents"
December 2010: They live like nobodies. They die like nobodies. You don't even know they exist. They answer to names that aren't theirs—usually informal first names derived from an identifying or peculiar personal trait and given by each other. These are Delhi's homeless. While the adults among them have night shelters to go to, children without families have to fend for themselves on the streets. In a survey, NGO Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (Chetna) found more than 10,000 children in Delhi living on the city's streets—alone. "Young, cold and homeless"
December 2010: NHRC notice to govt on plight of street kids Moved by the plight of homeless children fighting the winter chill spending nights in the open on the Capital’s roads, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday sought a reply from the Delhi government if it had issued any guidelines for the care and protection of street children. For more info please read "NHRC notice to govt on plight of street kids"
December 2010: In the bone chilling winter when finding a place to sleep becomes an utter necessity, many homeless people in the national capital are making a deliberate choice of not sleeping in night shelters due to concerns of class, gender and personal hygiene among others. For more read "Class, gender concerns at night shelters in Delhi"

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