Child In Need Institute

Child in Need Institute (CINI), often known internationally as Child in Need India, is a humanitarian organisation aimed at promoting "sustainable development in health, nutrition and education of child, adolescent and woman in need" in India.[2] The India-based Child In Need Institute is headquartered in Kolkata (Calcutta) and operating in some of the poorest areas in India, whereas its international arm Fondazione CINI International is based in Verona, Italy.

Child in Need India/Child in Need Institute (CINI)
Formation1974
TypeNGO
PurposePromote sustainable development in health,nutrition,education and protection of child, adolescent and woman in need
HeadquartersKolkata, India
Coordinates22°26′02″N 88°17′44″E
Secretary & Founder Director
Samir Chaudhuri
Chairman of the Governing Body
Kalyan Mandal
Staff
1291[1]
Websitewww.cini-india.org

Founded by pediatrician Samir Chaudhuri in 1974, CINI is involved in several major community development focused projects in India, driving at the underlying social causes of poverty, and collaborates with the Indian government and other local and international NGOs. CINI focuses primarily on the issues of health, nutrition, education and protection of children and mothers. To date its activities have reached around five million people living in the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand. The organisation is also increasingly involved in projects in other countries within Asia and Africa, in cooperation with both aid organisations and UN agencies.

CINI shares its approaches with other organisations working in related fields, especially smaller, locally based, community NGOs. CINI has twice been awarded the Indian Government's National Award for Child Welfare.[3][4]

CINI has around 1300 employees. Its activities are supported by independent national associations in a number of countries, and by Fondazione CINI International in Italy.[1] CINI cooperates with Save the Children, UNICEF, CARE, the UK Department for International Development, the World Bank, the Indian government and private corporations such as KPMG.

History
An older version of the CINI logo

CINI emerged in part from the work of its founder, Dr. Samir Chaudhuri, who began his medical career working in the villages and slums of West Bengal in the 1970s. His professional collaboration with Sister Pauline Prince, an Australian Loreto nun and nutritionist, and Rev Fr J. Henrichs S. J.,[4] led to the Child In Need Institute's foundation in 1974. CINI has gone on to become one of the leading humanitarian NGOs of India.[5]

In 1998 CINI was recognised as a National Mother NGO, under the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) program by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.[6] That same year it was also recognized as a collaborative training institute by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi,[7] and now constitutes the largest training facility in West Bengal for training health workers in nutrition, safe motherhood and HIV awareness. This training facility was extended from CINI's own staff training centre to teach workers from other NGOs and government.[8]

The organisation has twice been awarded the National Award of Child Welfare by the Government of India. In 2007, Dr. Chaudhuri received the World of Children Health Award for making "a significant lifetime contribution to children in the fields of health, medicine or the sciences."[9]

Work

CINI’s child right-based approach to development creating Child Friendly Community where families, schools, police stations, social and physical settings are committed to respect, protect and fulfill children’s rights in the spheres of health, nutrition, education and protection from all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence. As key rights-holders, children and women are encouraged to participate in making decisions that affect their lives. The main focal point of CINI’s work is what they call as ‘CINI Method’ [10] a convergence of programs for a sustainable development by sensitising communities, institutions and families and to be supportive in having a voice fulfilling children’s fundamental entitlements as a matter of right.[11] [12]

Education for all
CINI's School

CINI’s work in the education area started in the late 1970s with a child sponsorship programme, although it involved more distinctly only a decade later with a numerous initiatives in favour of deprived children who were barred access to formal education. In the late 1980s, CINI started working with the children living on the railway platforms of the Sealdah Railway Station in Kolkata in low-income urban communities, remedial education centres were further opened to help mainstream and retain children in schools. [13] CINI seeks to ensure education of children from early childhood to 16 years of age, i.e., completion of secondary education by ensuring continuous education-related inputs. This is supported by follow-up and cohort tracking at the community level by frontline workers. Further, there is an emphasis on early childhood care and education, i.e., from conception to 8 years of age, to ensure a gradual and smooth transition from pre-primary levels – requiring more care and nurturing of the young child- to primary education. CINI has mainstreamed over 10,000 children into formal schools, both residential and non-residential. The majority of these children are from the slums, squatter colonies, railway platforms, red light areas, rural villages and tribal areas of India. [14] [15]

Funding

CINI's projects are funded by grants from other aid organisations, international organisations and governments. CINI additionally receives funding from private corporations and individual donors in India and abroad. Its cooperation partners include corporations such as KPMG.[16]

Partnership

CINI recently formed a partnership with Resource Group For Education And Advocacy For Community Health, a non-profit organisation founded in 1999, to eliminate tuberculosis and make Odisha and Jharkhand TB-free by 2025 under National Strategic Plan (NSP).[17]

Awards

CINI or its founder and director Samir Chaudhuri have received many awards over the years, including[1]

  • 2012 BBC Radio 4 Appeal by Sir Mark Tully[18]
  • 2011 The WHO Award for Excellence in Primary Health Care, presented to CINI director Samir Chaudhuri by Indian health and family welfare minister Sudip Bandhopadhya at the Taj Palace in New Delhi on 22 December 2011.
  • 2008 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Global Humanitarian Award awarded to Samir Chaudhuri


References
  1. "CINI: About CINI". Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  2. THE CHILD IN NEED INSTITUTE (2008), About CINI [online]. Available at: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed 8 February 2008)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. WADIA, J (2006), The cycle of life [online]. Available at: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed 8 February 2008)
  5. COPAL PARTNERS (2006), "Child In Need Institute (CINI) Child Welfare and Development" [online]. Available at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 2008-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed 7 February 2008)
  6. CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT, INDIA (2007), "Health and Environment Newsletter from the Centre for Science and Environment" [online]. Available at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed 7 February 2008)
  7. CINI INDIA (2008), About CINI [online]. Available at: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed 8 February 2008)
  8. CINI UK (2008), "Maternal Health Report", forthcoming
  9. "UNICEF and US Fund host World of Children 10th-anniversary awards". UNICEF. 8 November 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  10. "CINI. Situation of Micro-nutrient in West Bengal" (PDF). NITI Aayog.
  11. "Committed to Community". The Good Sight Magazine.
  12. "Interviews | Dr. Samir Chaudhuri, paediatrician and founder of Child in Need Institute (CINI), interviewed by Civil Society News (New Delhi)".
  13. "Resident school for street children in kolkata". The Times of India.
  14. "An integrated approach to including vulnerable children in India – EENET".
  15. "Education".
  16. "Home | KPMG | IN". KPMG. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  17. "CINI joins hands with REACH to eradicate Tuberculosis in Odisha". Orissadiary. 31 July 2020.
  18. "BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 Appeal, Child in Need India". BBC. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
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