Understand the importance of the Child Right Act.

 It is crucial for everyone to know about the child right act and its importance in our day-to-day lives. Children and adolescents have the same universal human rights as adults and additionally, other specific rights that recognize their unique needs. Children are not the property of their progenitors nor are they weak objects of mercy; they are individual beings and are the subject of their individual rights. The Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the child right act that must be actualized for children to grow and flourish to their full capacity. 

Children begin life as wholly dependent beings, who must rely on adults for care and supervision, which is needed to become independent. This ideal situation is usually found in children's families, but when primary adult caregivers are not able to meet children's needs, it is the State’s responsibility as primary duty bearer to find a suitable option in the largest interests of the child. The procedures, or inactions, of government influence children more powerfully than any other group in society; realistically, every sphere of government policy – ranging from education to public health – affects children to a remarkable extent. 

Policies that fail to take children into account have a negative impact on the fate of society, all sectors included. Child right act must ensure that children's views should be heard, understood, and considered in the administrative process. Without personal attention to the views of children – as revealed at home and in schools, in local areas and even in governments bodies – children's views go muffled on the several critical problems that concern them now and/or will affect them eventually. The wholesome evolution of children is essential for the welfare of any society. As children are more vulnerable in comparison to adults when they live in conditions such as poverty, ineffectual health care, nourishment, drinking water, shelter and environmental deterioration, they are brutally affected by diseases, malnutrition and poverty, which endanger the future of children and consequently, the future of the civilisations in which they live. The costs to the community of failing its children are colossal.

Save The Children aligns itself with the child right act through an approach of 3Ps, which is Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution. Working in sync with the vision of the United Nation that believes, ‘No matter what a child’s race, colour, religion, language, ethnicity, gender or abilities are, each child deserves to have access to these essential rights’, Save the Children has proven its leadership since 2008. When you support an NGO like Save the Children, you are taking part in an initiative to provide every child with a tomorrow that he/she truly deserves.

You may donate in kind, or donate your time to one of the several programmes, campaigns or volunteer-driven activities that the NGO runs across India.

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