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International and national organisation working for child welfare

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A large number of International agencies are engaged in the field of social development mainly the United Nations Agencies are activity engaged in programmes which concern directly the welfare activities of the UN Agencies. There are a number of other non­governmental agencies based abroad which assist in child welfare/development programmes.
Some of these are mentioned below:
United Nations Agencies:

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(i) World Health Organisation (Who):
The purpose of WHO is to assist the govt. to raise the standard of public health, dissemination of information on medical research. The headquarter of WHO in Geneva. The WHO assists number of developing countries to strengthen maternal and child health services, prevention of communicable diseases, improvement of environmental sanitation, rural health services, health education etc. WHO had assisted Indian in establishing primary health centres and sub centers in rural areas.
(ii) International Labour Organisation (ILO):
It aims at improving labour conditions raising living standards and promoting economic and social stability. ILO also assists state for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of working children through the child welfare programme. Social security measures and anti-child labour measures etc.

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(iii) United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF):
It consists of donation and contribution for the welfare and development of children. The donations are received from the developed countries to be utilized for the children in developing Countries. Since 1949 the UNICEF has been assisting the govt. of India for a variety of child survival and development programmes.
The main programmes assisted by the UNICEF in Indian are as follows:
(i) Applied Nutritional programme (ANP)
(ii) Integrated child development services (ICDS)
(iii)Social inputs in Area Development.
(iv) Children in specially difficult circumstances including working & strut children.
(v) Urban basic services.
(vii) Safe drinking water and environmental sanitation.

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(iv) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO):
It was founded on 1945 with its headquarters at Rome. It plays an important part in increasing food production and taking measures aiming at development of rural families with particular references to women & children. It also helps the people of the world in their continuing fight against hunger and malnutrition.
(v) World Food Programme (WFP):
It is a recent venture of this FAO through which efforts are made to provide assistance in terms of food to the developing Countries. One of the major components of the programmes is making available donations of food from developed countries for feeding children in the programme of combating malnutrition and under nutrition in the developing Countries. In India the WEP has invested in a vast feeding programme for millions of Children and pregnant women and nursing mother’s particularly through ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) net-work.
(vi) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO]:
UNESCO helps to develop text books and promotion and teaching of national languages to the children of the migrant workers, training of the staff for pre-school children and assists projects to set up 
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