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Save the Child Foundation was founded on the core philosophy of social responsibility to save the child in need. Entirely driven by socially responsible volunteers with a passion to change the world and save a child in need.

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On a routine trip to home country India in 2008 and a chance visit to a special needs orphanage met more than 80 special needs children  who were physically challenged children, Speech and Hearing Impaired children, Cerebral Palsy children, Cognitively Impaired children, Autistic Children, Downs Syndrome Children, Blind Children - all of them either abandoned or orphaned but then they were just children - in need of love and security, healthy food to eat, a decent place to live, adequate medical care before they get good education and then empowerment to sustain and survive. Children are Children and these are their basic rights as children.



As a parent we would go to what ever length to make every dream and wish of our child come true and when you have a special needs child - you would go a million miles and more if you have to. Sometimes even those million miles fall short when you live in extraordinary circumstances of poverty combined with lack of education and top that with lack of resources and knowledge to rehabilitate the child. The child soon becomes a liability as there are more mouths to feed in an already overly populated family. This is when the underprivileged  parent of a special needs child  is contemplating the birth and life of the child which leads to abandonment.