ABOUT THE PROBLEM
1 in 3 children stunted
between 0-5 years
33 million child labourers
between 5-14 years
42% married women
in India were married as children
We hear these stats everyday, but where are these stunted, out of school, working from the age of 5 children who get married off? They were not in your class, it is not happening to your friends...then
WHO ARE THEY?
THEY ARE AROUND.
They are the children of the maid that works in your house
Children of people who clear your trash, fix your pipe, drive you around, deliver your food.
Children of the people who are working in the fields, growing your food
Actually they are the children who made the clothes & shoes you are wearing, the phone and laptop you are using, the house you are living in
Why is it that everyone working for us, to make our lives comfortable, is living a life so different from our own?
THE TRUTH
is that even though none of us are intentionally trying to hurt children, we are living in a system that is oppressive in nature.
We didn’t build THIS SYSTEM but we are inheriting this system and what is important for us to know is that we should not pass on this system to our children.
THE MAD VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM
is for people who are committed to ending the oppression of children in our lifetime.
It teaches you how to