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Why Plan works in India: quick facts
- Nearly one in ten children die before age five
- One in two children under five years old are underweight
- Six in every ten girls don't go to secondary school
- Two out of three children don't have access to adequate sanitation
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Bollywood star donates movie fee to Plan
Anil Kapoor, who stars in the highly acclaimed new Danny Boyle film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, has donated his entire fee for the movie to Plan’s Universal Birth Registration campaign in India |
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Flooding displaces millions in Asia
Plan has launched an appeal to help the 3,300,000 people who have been forced from their homes by floods in northern India, Nepal and Pakistan |
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Life changes for Trinathbasti women
Read about how some women from Orissa in India became community leaders, breaking with a tradition where they were kept hidden away from society |
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A new generation of readers in Deodurg Taluk
Access to education for many children in rural India is a luxury not available to them. Plan is starting to address this by offering 'supplementary schooling' in areas will high illiteracy rates |
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The Gender Gap
Plan works closely with communities to ecourage the role of women in Indian society, where there is a wide gender gap in literacy, employment, and mortality |
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Country statistics
| Country: |
INDIA |
| Population: |
1,065,462,000 (2003) |
| Capital City: |
New Delhi |
| National Language: |
Hindi |
| Per capita income: |
US$ 530/year (2003) |
| Life expectancy: |
64 years (2003) |
| Access to safe water: |
86% (2002) |
| Adequate sanitation facilities: |
30% (2002) |
| Under 5 Mortality Rate: |
87/1,000 live births (2003) |
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| Source: |
State of the World's Children Report 2005 (published by UNICEF) |
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