Sustainable livelihood promotion means creating job opportunities for people that empowers them to earn sufficient income for their livelihood. It also capacitates people to lead a life of dignity. Citizens Foundation is working with the rural population(landless folk, agricultural labourers, marginal & small farmers belonging to SC & ST communities) who live near forests or in drought prone zones or in hilly inaccessible tracks of Jharkhand.
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Status of children in India is quite grim. In spite of the fact that, India is a signatory to United Nations Convention on Rights of Child (UNCRC), majority of the children in India, especially those belonging to the disadvantaged communities staying both in rural & urban areas are denied of their basic right to survival, growth, participation & protection.
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Citizens Foundation organizes Campaigns from time to time on different issues to promote awareness among the various sections of the society and to sensitize their inner call to participate in these issues in whatever small ways they can. The basic objective behind these Campaigns is twofold
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Despite India's impressive economic growth access to quality health care services have a long way to go.India's maternal mortality rates are among the world's highest. Reluctance to seek medical care for pregnancy is considered as the primary contributing factor.Although India was the first country to announce an official family planning programme in 1952 but its population grew from 361 million in 1951 to 844 million in 1991.
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The rural population of India continue to be dependent on land and water resources for their livelihoods. However, of-late various phenomena like drought, soil erosion, de-forestation have posed threat to our natural resources & bio-diversity. This has resulted in urban migration of rural folks, people giving up of traditional occupations to work as daily wage earners in semi urban & urban areas
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Resource Group (RG) is another one of the important dimensions of Citizens Foundation. Though pulled resources and talents spread over present functional areas in Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Orissa, Meghalaya and Assam; continuous efforts are made to broaden the group to work in each state of the country.
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