• (1)-13,40,000 children below 5 die in a year, that is 3671 under 5 child deaths per day. • (2)-Nearly half of all child deaths under 5 in India are attributed to undernu
...trition. • (3)-1 in every 11 children in India is working, when they should be at school. • (4)-More than half (56%) of the under 5 deaths occur within the first 28 days of life, we work to prevent these lives • India accounts for more than 3 out of 10 stunted children in the world. • (5)-47% of the women in India are married when they are a child (before the age of 18), and 30% bear a child when they are a child (adolescent mothers). • (6)-17.7 million children and adolescents are out of school in India, this is 14% of world's population of children out of school. • 20% of grade 2 children in India cannot recognize numbers 1-9; 53% of children drop out of school at elementary level.
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