Children from India, Pak video conference on issues

Celebrating its 75 successful years of campaigning for child rights, Plan India on Wednesday organised a video conferencing between the group of Plan India children and Plan Pakistan community children to share their opinions and views on the issues affecting their lives.

The issues raised by the children were presented to the chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Shantha Sinha, in the form of a memorandum. It included the challenges with regard to birth registration for street children and recommendations for support from NCPCR in taking the issue forward with the relevant authorities.

Bhagyashri Dengle, executive director, Plan India, said, "India has one of the world's youngest populations and birth registration ensures a child right to his/her identity. Plan India continues to remain committed towards the cause by creating awareness and understanding amongst population about advantages of birth registration. Plan India has been working tirelessly to overcome barriers of birth registration, through an innovative grass-root level campaign 'Count Every Child because Every Child Counts' to achieve the 100 per cent registration of births in India.

Plan International, one of the oldest and largest children's global development organisations, today marked its 75 years of commitment to children with a series of unique global celebrations. The charity which works with more than 56 million children in 50 countries will mark this milestone in a number of ways.