The campaign ‘Every last Child’, an initiative of Save the Children was on Tuesday launched with the motto to reach every single child living both in rural and urban areas, so that maximum benefits are provided to the deprived kids.
Focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) proposals, the campaign covers all vital facets which are required to uplift children linking them to the mainstream with special focus on education, health, gender sensitisation issues.
Targeting the most vulnerable part of the society, the dignitaries and panelists also divulged missed call alert number for missing child during the launch of the campaign.
State Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon, Social Welfare Minister louise Marandi, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Saryu Roy, Padma Shri Simon Oraon, Vikash Bharti Director Ranjana Kumari including other experts from various fields addressed the gathering on issues covering role of Sahiya in ensuring safe childhood and mobilising community, status of children and right to food, importance of child education, role of various mediums in enhancing the status of children with special focus on empowerment of girls.
“As more than 70 per cent people are living in interior areas, the departments need to assure that even the basic facilities are reaching to these people or not. Standard of living must be assured time and again. It has become mandatory to check the loopholes present in various Government schemes, so that the benefits are given to the targeted public,” said State Assembly Speaker, Dinesh Oraon while addressing the gathering on responsibility of elected representatives towards children in the context to SDG.