The Elwyn Parekh Home in Anand, Gujarat is run by Mainesh and Snehlata Parmar. This Home provides residential care to destitute and needy girls from nearby village communities. At present there are 12 girls living at the Home. Next month, an additional eight girls will be coming to live at the Home, three of which are orphans.
The Elwyn Parekh Home is currently in the advanced stages of receiving the needed government approvals and licenses to expand. They are now in contact with the local Child Welfare Committee and hope to get the final permissions soon. In addition, they have a goal to extend their care for orphans to include adoption and are seeking the guidance of Orphan Outreach staff to set up and begin facilitating adoptions in the near future. They are also well into the process of getting the needed FCRA approvals, which will make it easier for them to receive more funding. This project is at a very early stage and is looking forward to finding the best ways to help many more orphans and girls from the nearby communities.
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Current Leader - Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh
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Compulsory Education - 6 to 14 years
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Literacy - 73% (male); 48% (female)
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Religion - Hindu (80%), Muslim (14%),
Christian (2%), other (6%)
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India is located in Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan.
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Although India occupies only 2.4% of the world's land area, it supports over 15% of the world's population. Only China has a larger population.
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There are an estimated 35 million orphans (all of sub-Saharan Africa has 43 million). 9% of all children in India are orphans.
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No country can rival India’s children in need. Of India’s nearly 400 million under 18, over 70 million are child laborers, 10 million are bonded laborers (a form of slavery to pay off family debts), 13 million are homeless, 2 million are street children without families.
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There is widespread child abuse, and there is a deficit of 40 million girls because of female feticide — over 20,000 ultrasound clinics thrive on this illegal practice. There are 575,000 child prostitutes and there is a massive trade in Bangladeshi and Nepali girls sold into prostitution.
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Malnutrition affects nearly half of all children under age five.
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The adult literacy rate has a wide discrepancy between males – 73%, and females – 48% (2000-2004).
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Only 59 percent of boys and 47 percent of girls attend Secondary school (1996-2005).
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AIDS has spread rapidly in India and some estimates have said that by 2020 there could be 200 million carrying HIV.
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