WELCOME

CHILD WELFARE
AGENCY
 INTRODUCTION

Child welfare agency include providing services

to socially, economically, physically or mentally
handicapped children who are unable to avail
the services provided by the community .
They are preventive, promotive , developmental
and rehabilitative in nature.
They are designed to meet the needs of the
most deprived and vulnerable children.
 DEFINITION

Child welfare agency is an

administrative unit responsible
for social work concerned with
the welfare and vocational
training of children.
 PURPOSES
To educate the children
To promote and conduct research
To help training and education of teachers
To provide health support for children.
To ensuring safety of child.
To strengthen families to successfully care
for their children.
 CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES
NATIONAL
1. Indian red cross society
2. Central social welfare board
3. Indian council for child welfare.
4. All India women’s conference.
5. Bharat Sewak Samaj
6. Hind kusht Nivaran Sangh.
7. Kasturba Gandhi memorial trust.
8. Family planning association of India.
9. All India blind relief society.
CONT………..
10. Saint john ambulance association
11. Tuberculosis association of India.
12. Ford foundation.
13. Smile
14. SOS village.
15. Child in need institute (CINI)
16. CRY (Child Rights and Youth)
 INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
ARE:
1. WHO
2. UNICEF
3. International red cross
4. FAO of the United Nations
5. WORLD BANK
6. CARE
7. USAID
8. UNFPA
9. UNDP
10. ILO
THE INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
Established:1920
Headquarter: Delhi
700 branches throughout India
 Child welfare activities
1931 - Maternity and Child Welfare Bureau
They run various Hospitals, Bal Vikas
Kendra’s , urban health centers, MCW
Polyclinics and MCW Centers
Orphanages / Rehabilitation Homes .
Schools
Cont….
Blood Transfusion Centre for Thalassemic
Children
Antenatal Screening And Prenatal Diagnosis
Programme For Thalassemia/Sickle Cell
Prevention
Medical camps – in slums & give free medicine
Cont…
Sewing Centres
Youth Peer Education Programme (Y.P.E.P.)
HIV/AIDS/STI
“Training of Trainers programme on Child
Protection and Safe Environment”
Malaria Prevention and Control Programme
Polio Eradication programme
 CENTRAL SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD

• Establishment-GOI 1953
• 33 State Social Welfare Board
• 18,000 NGOs -financial assisted
 Services
Scheme of short stay home for women and girls
Condensed courses of education for women
and girls
Rajiv Gandhi national crèche scheme for the
children of working mothers
Innovative schemes - Poverty reduction
programme ,Gender equality in access to health,
education and training , Child labour ,Children or
Women trafficking
 INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CHILD
WELFARE
 Establishment: 1952
 Head office – new Delhi
 Child welfare activity

 National bravery awards

 Learning to live together camp
 National painting competition – (honoring child artists)
 Rajiv gandhi national creche scheme
 Promoting and facilitating the adoption of of orphaned
and abandoned children
 Indira gandhi holiday home
 Toys, clothes and books bank
 Street children project-6-16,
 Sponsorship programme 618,income<5000
ALL INDIA WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

 Established: 1927
 Head office :- Delhi
Child welfare services
 LITERACY AND EDUCATION
Promote school dropouts and other under
privileged children to return to mainstream education
primary education for school drop out girls
education and day care services street children
condensed courses - women and girl
 HEALTH, FAMILY WELFARE AND
POPULATION
Mobile Health Vans
Provides special care to expectant and nursing
mothers, and children
Educates women - health, nutrition, sanitation,
hygiene and family welfare Day care centres -leprosy
patients children.
Anemia camps
Crèches for children
Scholarship program for brilliant children from lower
income group
Legislative role
Sarda Act
Hindu Code Bill -Adoptions and Maintenance Act
Devdasi prohibition Act
Factory and Mines Act
Maternity Benefits Act
INSTITUTIONS SET UP BY AIWC
Family Planning Centre (estd. in 1937, now the
Family Planning Association of India) Save the
Children Committee the Indian Council for Child
Welfare)
The Amrit Kaur Bal Vihar for Mentally Retarded
Children
 BHARAT SEVAK SAMAJ

1952: National Development Agency

Sponsored by: planning commission, government of India
to ensure public cooperation for implementing
government plans.
CHILD WELFARE ACTIVITIES

Welfare Extension Project (rural and urban)

Crèches and Day Care-centres;
Holiday Home
Maternity Centres.
Crafts and Vocational Centres for women or girl
Occupational Therapy Institute for physically and
mentally retarded children.
CONT…
Preventoria (institute for seperstion) for children of
leprosy disease.
Home for waifs and strays(homeless and neglected
children)
Pre-Primary and nursery schools
Libraries and reading rooms
Dispensaries
Milk distribution centres
institutions for handicapped children
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

 2330 schools - poor and middle class children age 3 to 5

yr
 3 - vocational and IT Education programs  Sponsor
Many Girls Institutions, Junior and High Girls Schools
have been Jabalpur Girls High Secondary School-1500
students are admitted
 HIND KUSHT NIVARAN SANGH

• Established :1925 –care, education to

leprosy patient
• Head office - New Delhi
 ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN

Day care services ,balwadi,creach Holiday

homes-12-16 yr
Recreation facilities – play centres ,public parks,
childrens library, bal bhavans, children films ,
national museum ,hobby classes
KASTURBA GANDHI MEMORIAL TRUST

• Established -1945
• Central Office -Kasturbagram, Indore
•22 branches •500 centres
Child welfare activity

 Educational programmesschool,college 
Hamara School’ projectSmile Foundation
goa
 Village service centre (gram seva
kendra)
 Child welfare centre (bal seva kendra)
 Creach (jula ghar)
 Training for block worker(gram karykarta
prasikshan)
Cont….

Nursing training
Maternity centres.
Health centre (Arogya kendra)
Hospitals
Nutritious food centres.
Welfare centres for children and women
 FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF
INDIA
• Established: 1949
• Headquarter - Mumbai
SERVICES:

 Gynaecological services
 Infertility services
 Gender Based Violence related services 
Laboratory services
 Contraceptive services
 (MTP)Medical Termination of Pregnancy Services
 HIV related services-test, counselling,treatment
CONT……

Maternal and child care services

Urine pregnancy test
Antenatal care including injection TT and
supplement, counselling ,
 post natal care and counselling
 immunization services for children
general clinic for mothers and children
SPECIAL PROGRAMMES

Small Family By Choice Project-acceptance of

family planning
Youth Education on Sexuality Project awareness and
education in SRH issues
The Girl Child and Prevention of Female Foeticide
Project
Disha - Disha Centres/young people/meet, discuss
healthy lifestyles
Movement Youth to Youth-RH
education/adolescents Girl/ Madrasas Spandana-
educational project /RH issues
THE ALL INDIA BLIND RELIEF SOCIETY
• Established: 1946
• Head office - Lajpat Nagar, Delhi
Services:
• Co-ordinates the work of different institutions
working for the blind.
• It organizes eye relief camps and other measures
for the relief of blind.
 ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

 Established – 1992
 Headquarter - Dehli
 ACTIVITIES
Organize Training Programme For
First Aid
Home Nursing
Hygiene & Sanitation.
Mother craft & Child Welfare
Disaster Management.
Provide Service
Ambulance & First Aid services.
Awareness programmes
Arrange of first Aid Post & duties on various Occasions
relief works during the calamities
organizing blood camps
 ESTABLISHED - February, 1939
 HEAD OFFICE – New Delhi

TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
ACTIVITY

Providing quality diagnostic and treatment

services
Complementing supplementing RNTCP ,
DOTs services of Government of India. No
new units are to be established to avoid costs
and duplication.
 FORD
FOUNDATION
ESTABLISHED: 1936 New York, in India 1952
HEADQUARTE: Delhi
FOUNDER: Henry & Edsel Ford
IT SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT:
Promote livelihood opportunities Advocate for
economic and social rights Make the
government's development efforts transparent and
accountable
Work to create agricultural policies
Enable women and girls to address their sexual
and reproductive health and rights Broaden the
participation of marginalized groups through public
service media.
 CHILD WELFARE

Research programme in family planning

Establish national health and family welfare
institute in Dehli
Pilot project of health services
Help in water supply and drainage of sewage
system in Kolkata
help end child marriage
 Smile foundation
Establishment: 2002
Head office - Delhi
Programmes and activities
MISSION EDUCATION - underprivileged children
Crèche , Pre-school ,Non Formal Education ,
Remedial Education , Bridge Course Family Life
Education for adolescent girls.
Educational project
 Integrated Community Development in Guna
 Vidya Jyoti Primary school -chhatisgarh
 Jyotirmaya Dumb and Deaf School at Barwaha
Cont…..
Health care
Smile on wheel
Smile health camps
Livelihood – smile twin e-learning programme
Girl child and women empowerment
Swabhiman
Pravertan
Cont………
Film production
I am Kalam
Choone Do Aasman
Nanhi Nazar
Short Cuts
Journey so far
 SOS CHILDREN S VILLAGE
Established -Austria in 1949
in India - 1964 at Faridabad.
Now in India - 41 SOS Children's Villages
 ACTIVITIES
Child care programmes
 Family based care (fbc)
 Family strengthening programme (fsp)

Protect child right

Educational services
Emergency response in disaster and help
children
 CHILD IN NEED INSTITUTE (CINI)

 Established - 1974 by Dr Samir Chaudhuri (paediatrician

working in Kolkata)
 Headquarter - Kolkata
Activities
Education
Shikshalaya prakalpa and midday meal
Eliminating child labour in calcutta
Health and nutrition
1. Adopt a mother and save her child
2. National aids control program
Cont…
3. CINI Nutrimix - 400gm of roasted wheat
and 100gm of green gram.
4. Face-To-Face Counselling
5. Adopt a Mother and Save Her Child
6. Educating People about HIV/Aids
7. Child line -1098
8. Girls Shelters Home
9. Child Sponsorship Program
10. Train local women & govt. worker
11. Emergency Relief
CRY (CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU)

 Established -1979 by a 25 year airline purser, Rippan Kapur

and his seven friends.
 Head office - Mumbai
WORKING AREAS
The right to survival, to life, health,
nutrition, name and nationality.
The right to development of education,
care, leisure, and recreation.
The right to protection from exploitation,
abuse and neglect.
The right to participation in expression,
information, thought and religion.
ACTIVITIES

Bringing together donation, time, recourses

Mobilizing communities to stand up and
demand for their rights
Implementing awareness building measure
Partnering with small NGO all over India
CRY'S IMPACT IN 2010-11

 122,898 infants have been immunised

 415 new ICDS (anganwadi) centres opened
 19 new PHC and 38 Sub-health centres
opened
 21,676 children (6-18 years) who had
dropped out of school have been enrolled
 Child labour prevented in 648 villages
 1152 villages were freed of child marriages
 103 govt. schools prevented from closing
down
INTERRNATIONAL CHILD WELFARE
AGENCIES
 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
 established on 7th April 1948
 It headquarter is at Geneva.
ACTIVITIES
Directing and co-ordinating health programmes
Prevention and control of communicable and other
specific disease
Helping member countries in their health programmes
and development of health services, providing more
emphasis on development of infrastructure
Helping programmes related to improvement in the
standard of family health
CONT……
Promoting environmental health
Collection of data for health statics , communication and
publication of information’
Encouraging research and help in strengthening training
institute
collection and publication of health literature and
information , keeping WHO LIBRARY up to date and
provide community information services
CHILD WELFARE
 National Polio Surveillance Project
Routine Immunization
Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood
Illnesses
Integrated Disease Surveillance Project, RNTCP
Emergency and Humanitarian Action,
National AIDS Control Project (NACP)
Leprosy Elimination,
CONT….
 National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme,
 Integrated Prevention and Control of Non
Communicable Diseases,
 National Tobacco Control Programme
 national programme for prevention and control of
cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke
 National Mental Health Programme and
 Elimination of Lymphatic filariasis.
 UNICEF United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund

 Established in 1946 by the un general

 Headquarters - New York
 Active in more than 190 countries
 In India since 1949
SERVICES
Child health
Production of vaccine sera
Running environment sanitation
program
Primary health care to mothers and
children
Immunisation programmes
Family health services
Safe water and adequate sanitation
Nutrition
Applied nutrition programme for
community development
Agricultural extension
School health services
Helping dairy projects
Prevention of nutritional deficiency
diseases by supplying Vitamin A,
Iodised salt, iron and folic acid
supplements and milk powder
Education
In collaboration with UNESCO, UNICEF
assists India in expanding and improving
teaching science
Strengthening science laboratories
Supplying AV Aids to educational institutions
Providing books and educational materials to
school of nursing
Partner in sarva shiksha abhiyan
Social welfare
RCH services
Promoting CSSM programme
Contributing to primary health care
Recently, UNICEF has encouraged
four strategies for promoting child
health called GOBI
• G-growth chart: for monitoring growth
and development
• O-oral rehydration: reducing mortality
rate due to diarrhea
• B- breast feeding: for wholesome meal
to infant
• I- immunisation: for under 5 children
 INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS

 Establishment: 1863
 Head office - Geneva, Switzerland
 Services: Protection of war wounded, refugees, and
prisoners
 ACTIVITIES
 Largely confined to the victims of war
 Involves into activities like first aid in war, MCH
services
 Extends research in disaster management and
has designed emergency protocol
 Safe guarding health care
 Re-uniting families
 Blood donation
 Drug and equipment supply
 Emergency transport and hospital care
FAO OF THE UNITED NATIONS
 Establishment: - 16 October 1945
 headquarter in Rome, Italy.
 FAO has 191 Member Nations
SERVICES:
FAO is also a source of knowledge and
information, and
helps developing countries in transition modernize
and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries
practices,
Ensuring nutrition and food security for all
CHILD WELFARE:-
ILO & FAO working together to prevent Child Labor
in Agriculture and fisheries
 WORLD BANK

The World Bank is an international financial agency of the United

Nations that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs
to rise living standard .
Established in 1944
Headquarter - Washington
 FUNCTIONS:
 Bank gives loan for projects that lead to economic growth the
projects usually concern with:
 Economic growth.
 Agriculture, water supply, education.
 Road, railway, electricity, family planning.
 Health and environment.
 assistance to hospital care.
 Cooperative programmes exist between WHO and the world Bank
e.g. projects for water supply, World Food Programme, Population
control programme etc.
 SUPPORTED PROJECT IN INDIA
ICDS Systems Strengthening & Nutrition Improvement
Program (ISSNIP)
National Vector Borne Disease Control
Polio Eradication Support
Reproductive & Child Health Second Phase (RCH)
Tsunami Disaster Recovery in India
National HIV/AIDS Control Project
National Tuberculosis Control Project
 CONT….
Immunization Strengthening Project
National Leprosy Elimination
Basic Education Project
Secondary Education Project
Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation
Child Development Services Project.
Woman and Child Development Project
Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Project
 CARE (COOPERATIVE FOR AMERICAN
RELIEF EVERYWHERE)
 Established - 1945 and
 Headquartered -Atlanta, Georgia
 Work in 84 countries.
 Services: Provides logistics, food aid, and long
term development assistance
 IN INDIA: care work with govt of India , state govt,
NGO and it also support following projects
 Support ICDS programme
 Integrated and nutritional programme
 Better health and nutritional programme
 Anaemia control project
 Improving women health projects
 Child survival project
EDUCATION
 Girls’ Education Programme
 Udaan school –9-14 girl/primary edu./11month
 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas
 Support ICDS programme implementation HEALTH
 SAKSHAM AND EMPHASIS-NACP
 AXSHYA –RNTCP
 Family Health Initiative
 SWASTH -Tech Assist /Nutritional Programme
USAID (UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT)

 Establishment: 3 nov.1961
 Headquarters : Washington.
 works in over 100 countries
SERVICES

Promote economic prosperity Strengthen

democracy and good governance
Protect human rights
Improve global health
Advance food security and agriculture
Improve environmental sustainability;
Further education
Help societies prevent and recover from
conflicts/disasters
In India
USAID implements HIV/AIDS prevention,
care and treatment programme
supports implementation of the DOTs
technical support to immunizations and Vit A
food aid program
support RCH services of NRHM
supports the National Polio Surveillance Project
Support Polio Eradication programme
 UNFPA (United Nations Fund For
Population Activities)
O Established-1969
O Head office - New York
O Mission
 UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund,
delivers a world where every pregnancy is
wanted, every birth is safe, every young
person's potential is fulfilled.
IN INDIA
 Reproductive and Child Health II (RCH II)
 National AIDS Control Programme III
(NACP III)
 National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
 UNDP (UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME)
 Established
-1966
 HQ: New York
 Work with 177 countries
WORKING AREA
 poverty reduction
 achieving the Millennium Development Goals
 democratic governance
 crisis prevention and recovery
 environment and energy protection
 Women's Empowerment and Inclusion
 Human Development
INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION

 Established -1919
 HQ – Genève
Mission
Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent
employment opportunities, enhance social protection and
strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.
WORK FOR CHILD WELFARE

 Child Labour - the ILO's International Programme

on Child Labour (IPEC) works to achieve the effective
end of child labor through country-based programmes
 INDUS (India-US) Child Labour Project –
prevention and elimination of child labour.
 CONCLUSION
The Child Welfare Service is responsible for implementing
measures for children and their families in situations where
there are special needs in relation to the home environment.
Assistance may be provided as counselling, advisory
services, and aid measures, including external support
contacts, relief measures in the home, and access to day
care and agencies or organization play an important role in
delivery of child welfare services .