The realities showing the need of the era that led us to start New Home.

• Less than half of India's children between the age 6 and 14 go to school.
  
• 95 in every 1000 children born in India, do not see their fifth birthday.
  
• Only 38% of India's children below the age of 2 years are immunized.
  
• Amongst married women in India today, 75% were under age at the time of their marriages.
  
• 58% of India's children below the age of 2 years are not fully vaccinated. And 24% of these children do not receive any form of vaccination.
  
• More that 50% of India's children are malnourished.
  
• More than 50 per cent of girls fail to enroll in school; those that do are likely to drop out by the age of 12.

Child Labor

• 19% of children employed work as domestic help.
  
• 25% of the victims of commercial sexual exploitation in India are below 18 years of age.
  
• Large numbers of children work simply because there is no alternative - since, they do not have access to good quality schools.
  
• Poor and bonded families often "sell" their children to contractors who promise lucrative jobs in the cities and the children end up being employed in brothels, hotels and domestic work. Many run away and find a life on the streets.