Talk:Child In Need Institute

Hello everyone!
My name is Srebrina. I'm new to Wikipedia and I will highly appreciate the advice of users more experienced than me. You see, the Child In Need Institute article shows as more of an advertisement than an encyclopedia entry. Please read it and share your views on how I can improve the text and make it look encyclopedic - it would be great if I can edit it before Christmas. I'm an online volunteer for CINI, so your input will actually be a helping hand to the organisation. Many thanks in advance and happy holidays!

Srebri 16:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * This image used by child in need institute thats why i am using it.
 * source : www.cini-india.org Kausikmaitra (talk) 04:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Coordinate error
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—199.190.46.228 (talk) 16:39, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * You haven't said what is wrong with the coordinates in the article or where the correct location might be. I've, not very confidently, emended the coordinates to correspond to the location that Google Maps identifies as the site of the CINI corporate offices. If that is not correct, please post a clear explanation on my talk page, User talk:Deor, and I'll emend them again. Deor (talk) 20:44, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure Deor Sir, It is location of Child in need institute work location, I do not whether Geo data is given or not , I am new in field , I am trying to read your valuable input , I am trying to rectify accordingly . Please need your feedback so i can change the information accordingly. geo data is given below
 * C7MW+G6 Kolkata, West Bengal 136.232.77.238 (talk) 04:47, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * I am trying to rectify it, Please guide me , Again I am trying the update the contents. Kausikmaitra (talk) 04:50, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Issues with recent additions
Starts off with a link to a youtube channel in the first paragraph, no need to add the honorific Dr. as it states immediately before that he was a paediatrician. Unsourced and more like a webhost:
 * For long time CINI has been adopting a human rights-based approach in its programmes, fostering partnerships for local development among community actors, service providers and elected representatives.
 * Beyond India, CINI has an international presence....
 * In 1998 CINI was recognised as a National Mother [ [NGO] ], under the Reproductive and Child...
 * A globally focused NGO, Fondazione CINI International, was...
 * Independent national associations have been formed in several countries to support CINI's work...
 * CINI UK was founded by Lady Odile Slynn, whose husband, Lord Slynn of Hadley, was a patron of the organisation....
 * CINI Method...
 * Communities are mobilised by self-help women’s and children’s...
 * Service providers are supported and monitored to ensure that teachers...
 * Local elected representatives (Panchayati Raj Institutions in rural areas and...
 * CINI acts as a facilitator in engaging local development actors – the...
 * CINI has focused their efforts on the critical periods of the life cycle...
 * CINI's work tackles malnutrition from the root...
 * CINI’s work in the education area started in the late 1970s with a...
 * CINI seeks to ensure education of children from early childhood to 16 years of age...
 * CINI’s work in thematic area of child protection started three decades ago in the city of Kolkata, where, in 1989...
 * CINI started a dedicated counselling helpline in 2002...
 * Since inception CINI emphasised on the constant support to the children...
 * CINI is a member of different platforms and committees, both Government and NGOs at global...
 * CINI or its founder and director Dr....

Poorly Sourced:
 * CINI’s child right-based approach to development creating Child...www.im4change.org
 * CINI has mainstreamed over 10,000 children into formal schools...www.eenet.org.uk consultant and www.cini-india.org/ the organizations website

More explanatory about the problem and not about CINI. i.e. this is awful and this is what CINI does about it: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viewmont Viking (talk • contribs) 13:29, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Maternal and child under-nutrition have a life-long impact on the...

Proposed additions
May i added in work section the annual article is share please guide me whether we can added ref : https://mega.nz/file/T6ZzAaKC#jcwVDGp3S13se7b1szL7YLw76sIrzrHePILl-jUpawM


 * source : == Work==
 * CINI’s child right-based approach to development creating Child Friendly Community where families, schools, police stations, social and physical settings are committed to respect, protect and fulfill children’s rights in the spheres of health, nutrition, education and protection from all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence. As key rights-holders, children and women are encouraged to participate in making decisions that affect their lives. The main focal point of CINI’s work is what they call as ‘CINI Method’ a convergence of programs for a sustainable development by sensitising communities, institutions and families and to be supportive in having a voice fulfilling children’s fundamental entitlements as a matter of right.
 * === CINI Method ===
 * CINI’s Rights-Based Approach to Development: Creating Child Friendly Community
 * Over the recent past, CINI has undergone a methodological shift in its policy and action by adopting a rights-based approach in the development work that it carries out among poor Indian communities. While the Child in Need does not have her fundamental needs met yet, the Child with Rights is being supported in having a voice and fulfilling her fundamental entitlements as a matter of right. CINI’s rights-based approach aims at creating Child Friendly Community, where families, schools, police stations, social and physical settings are committed to respect, protect and fulfill children’s rights in the spheres of health, nutrition, education and protection from all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence. As key rights-holders, children and women are encouraged to participate in making decisions that affect their lives. Primary duty-bearers are supported in fulfilling their rights, in particular.
 * •	Communities are mobilised by self-help women’s and children’s groups to ensure that parents, families, schools, ICDS centres, health sub-centres, police stations engage in keeping children in good health, well nourished, educated and protected from all practices that may be harmful to their full growth and development
 * •	Service providers are supported and monitored to ensure that teachers, health personnel, social workers extend quality health, nutrition, education and protection services equitably and inclusively to all children living in the community
 * •	Local elected representatives (Panchayati Raj Institutions in rural areas and Urban Local Bodies in municipal areas) are encouraged to ensure access to basic services, and implementation of policies and budgets in the best interests of children and women
 * CINI acts as a facilitator in engaging local development actors – the community, service providers and elected representatives – in a process aimed to strengthen good governance with and for children and women. Local governance partners are involved in participatory processes leading to increasing awareness on problems affecting the community, identifying issues through social mapping, planning interventions to address shared priorities, and monitoring the progressive fulfilment of human rights by all, especially the socially excluded.
 * Life Cycle Approach
 * CINI has focused their efforts on the critical periods of the life cycle, i.e.,pregnancy period, the first two years of life and adolescence, by adopting a Life Cycle Approach (LCA). To fulfill such urgent goals, CINI has initiated the ‘Adopt a Mother and Save Her Child’ programme in 1992, seeking individual sponsorships to support needy pregnant mothers during the vital period of intrauterine growth, and the physical and mental growth during the first two years of life of the child. A long-standing focus on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life has made CINI a pioneer in what has been recently recognised as an undisputed development priority worldwide.
 * === Malnutrition ===
 * Maternal and child under-nutrition have a life-long impact on the health and prospects of the child, potentially affecting future generations and India has one of the worst records of malnutrition among its population, despite its recent economic growth.
 * CINI's work tackles malnutrition from the root, focusing on preventing early marriage and early pregnancy, poor maternal nutritional status at conception; low maternal weight gain during pregnancy due to inadequate dietary intake; and short maternal stature due to the mother's own chronic malnutrition since childhood.One innovation is providing a low cost nutrition supplement Nutrimix, formulated by CINI.
 * === Education for all ===
 * CINI’s work in the education area started in the late 1970s with a child sponsorship programme, although it involved more distinctly only a decade later with a numerous initiatives in favour of deprived children who were barred access to formal education. In the late 1980s, CINI started working with the children living on the railway platforms of the Sealdah Railway Station in Kolkata in low-income urban communities, remedial education centres were further opened to help mainstream and retain children in schools.
 * CINI seeks to ensure education of children from early childhood to 16 years of age, i.e., completion of secondary education by ensuring continuous education-related inputs. This is supported by follow-up and cohort tracking at the community level by frontline workers. Further, there is an emphasis on early childhood care and education, i.e., from conception to 8 years of age, to ensure a gradual and smooth transition from pre-primary levels – requiring more care and nurturing of the young child- to primary education.
 * CINI has mainstreamed over 10,000 children into formal schools, both residential and non-residential. The majority of these children are from the slums, squatter colonies, railway platforms, red light areas, rural villages and tribal areas of India.
 * === Child Protection ===
 * CINI’s work in thematic area of child protection started three decades ago in the city of Kolkata, where, in 1989, an urban programme was created recognising the social safety nets for children are particularly weak in the city slums and streets. Initial work started out by setting up drop-in centres and hallway houses for street, run-away, trafficked and missing children rescued in the metropolitan area. The work later expanded to slum and red-light areas with concern relating also to child labour and child exploitation and abuse. A growing attention to child protection issues led CINI to progressively expand its programme in this area and converge it with interventions on the education front, in particular by prioritising schooling as a long-lasting solution to keep children safe, while also empowering them with the instruments necessary to prevent child labour, early marriage and other forms of abuse and exploitation.
 * Creating and strengthening community-based child protection systems and mechanism are strategies at the core of CINI’s child protection programme. CINI works with families, schools, communities and local government to prevent abuse, exploitation and neglect of vulnerable children in these settings that, when they fail to be protective, may be responsible themselves for generating various forms of violence against children. Across the state of West Bengal, CINI manages several CHILDLINE services for rescue, family reunification and social restoration of missing children. It also provides institution-based services such as temporary shelter homes mainly in collaboration with the government. Protection measures take gender dimensions into consideration and focus on the safety of girls, while not forgetting that of boys.
 * === Adolescent Empowerment ===
 * Adolescent programming is managed as a major area of work at CINI. Interventions in this critical period in the life of a child are integrated with the entire range of CINI thematic programme inputs relating to health, nutrition, education and child protection. To strengthen the effectiveness of programme for adolescent children, a CINI Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) was established in the year 2000 with the aim of promoting and protecting reproductive and sexual health, education and protection rights of young people (between the age of 10 and 24). The centre works towards empowering the adolescents by increasing capacity and developing innovative programme models to address adolescence-specific issues. It also seeks to enhance capacities of other civil society organisations committed to adolescent health, protection and empowering through networking and partnering on these issues.
 * === TEENLINE ===
 * CINI started a dedicated counselling helpline in 2002 to answer queries and provide first level counselling to young people on sexual and reproductive health issues, psycho-social and emotional problems, and family issues. Recently CINI has introduced a toll-free tele-counselling service [1800-121-5323] as well as face to face service for the young people and parents to deal with their emotional problems.
 * === CINI During Natural Calamities ===
 * Since inception CINI emphasised on the constant support to the children, adolescents and mother even during the distressed condition after a natural calamity, when economic structure and livelihood collapse. During Andhra Pradesh Cyclone (1977), West Bengal Flood (1979), Karamoja Uganda Famine (1980), West Bengal Cyclone (1983),Bangladesh Cyclone (1985), Bhuj Earthquake (2001), Kashmir Earthquake (2002), Tsunami(2004), Aila Cyclone(2009), Nepal Earthquake(2015), Amphan Cyclone(2020), Yaas Cyclone(2021) and Assam Flood(2020) CINI organised relief network in affected areas and supported people through frontline workers and Government systems.
 * === CINI During COVID19 ===
 * During early days of COVID Pandemic, CINI decided toplunge into relief operations and complement the government initiatives on 16th March 2020, even before the first lockdown cameinto effect. During first wave of COVID pandemic, CINI identified malnourished children, adolescents and pregnant/lactating women as most vulnerable since ICDS centres were not operational and distribution of Mid-Day-Meal at Schools for children was suspended. Distribution of dry ration and nutrition supplement in urban and rural blocks of West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam, supporting families of COVID affected people, convincing people with symptoms for testing, creating awareness about COVID appropriate behaviour, distribution of COVID kit were CINI’s main focus areas. CINI initiated the idea of stationary and mobile COVID Sahayata Kendra (CSK) or COVID Help Desk and started a number of CSKs at various parts of India for information dissemination, awareness campaign and food support. CSK was a successful ‘Innovation’ to support distress communities during the pandemic. CINI created huge number of WhatsApp groups of adolescent and young mothers to support them mentally. Organised webinars on education and health-Nutrition awareness and encouraged in youth engagements programs like kitchen gardens and various trainings. CINI in collaboration with Childline put an early gateway to identify and rescue eloped and fled away children and brought them in CINI’s institutional shelter and arrange reunification with their families at national level and even repatriate them to Bangladesh and Nepal. During first quarter of 2021, when vaccination drive started in India, CINI’s CSKs worked to disseminate awareness about vaccination and helped people in booking vaccination slots etc. During pandemic, when world went into a shell, thousands of CINI’s frontline workers worked for almost 24X7 in the remote corners of India.
 * CINI started a dedicated counselling helpline in 2002 to answer queries and provide first level counselling to young people on sexual and reproductive health issues, psycho-social and emotional problems, and family issues. Recently CINI has introduced a toll-free tele-counselling service [1800-121-5323] as well as face to face service for the young people and parents to deal with their emotional problems.
 * === CINI During Natural Calamities ===
 * Since inception CINI emphasised on the constant support to the children, adolescents and mother even during the distressed condition after a natural calamity, when economic structure and livelihood collapse. During Andhra Pradesh Cyclone (1977), West Bengal Flood (1979), Karamoja Uganda Famine (1980), West Bengal Cyclone (1983),Bangladesh Cyclone (1985), Bhuj Earthquake (2001), Kashmir Earthquake (2002), Tsunami(2004), Aila Cyclone(2009), Nepal Earthquake(2015), Amphan Cyclone(2020), Yaas Cyclone(2021) and Assam Flood(2020) CINI organised relief network in affected areas and supported people through frontline workers and Government systems.
 * === CINI During COVID19 ===
 * During early days of COVID Pandemic, CINI decided toplunge into relief operations and complement the government initiatives on 16th March 2020, even before the first lockdown cameinto effect. During first wave of COVID pandemic, CINI identified malnourished children, adolescents and pregnant/lactating women as most vulnerable since ICDS centres were not operational and distribution of Mid-Day-Meal at Schools for children was suspended. Distribution of dry ration and nutrition supplement in urban and rural blocks of West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam, supporting families of COVID affected people, convincing people with symptoms for testing, creating awareness about COVID appropriate behaviour, distribution of COVID kit were CINI’s main focus areas. CINI initiated the idea of stationary and mobile COVID Sahayata Kendra (CSK) or COVID Help Desk and started a number of CSKs at various parts of India for information dissemination, awareness campaign and food support. CSK was a successful ‘Innovation’ to support distress communities during the pandemic. CINI created huge number of WhatsApp groups of adolescent and young mothers to support them mentally. Organised webinars on education and health-Nutrition awareness and encouraged in youth engagements programs like kitchen gardens and various trainings. CINI in collaboration with Childline put an early gateway to identify and rescue eloped and fled away children and brought them in CINI’s institutional shelter and arrange reunification with their families at national level and even repatriate them to Bangladesh and Nepal. During first quarter of 2021, when vaccination drive started in India, CINI’s CSKs worked to disseminate awareness about vaccination and helped people in booking vaccination slots etc. During pandemic, when world went into a shell, thousands of CINI’s frontline workers worked for almost 24X7 in the remote corners of India.
 * During early days of COVID Pandemic, CINI decided toplunge into relief operations and complement the government initiatives on 16th March 2020, even before the first lockdown cameinto effect. During first wave of COVID pandemic, CINI identified malnourished children, adolescents and pregnant/lactating women as most vulnerable since ICDS centres were not operational and distribution of Mid-Day-Meal at Schools for children was suspended. Distribution of dry ration and nutrition supplement in urban and rural blocks of West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam, supporting families of COVID affected people, convincing people with symptoms for testing, creating awareness about COVID appropriate behaviour, distribution of COVID kit were CINI’s main focus areas. CINI initiated the idea of stationary and mobile COVID Sahayata Kendra (CSK) or COVID Help Desk and started a number of CSKs at various parts of India for information dissemination, awareness campaign and food support. CSK was a successful ‘Innovation’ to support distress communities during the pandemic. CINI created huge number of WhatsApp groups of adolescent and young mothers to support them mentally. Organised webinars on education and health-Nutrition awareness and encouraged in youth engagements programs like kitchen gardens and various trainings. CINI in collaboration with Childline put an early gateway to identify and rescue eloped and fled away children and brought them in CINI’s institutional shelter and arrange reunification with their families at national level and even repatriate them to Bangladesh and Nepal. During first quarter of 2021, when vaccination drive started in India, CINI’s CSKs worked to disseminate awareness about vaccination and helped people in booking vaccination slots etc. During pandemic, when world went into a shell, thousands of CINI’s frontline workers worked for almost 24X7 in the remote corners of India.

Kausikmaitra (talk) 05:07, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I would say no. The basic problem is that it comes from a primary source: the CINI itself. So there are three problems: (1) given the interest CINI has in placing itself in a good light, we cannot be certain that any of it can be verified, (2) much of it is not written in the tone of an encyclopedia (e.g. "CINI has undergone a methodological shift in its policy and action by adopting a rights-based approach in the development work that it carries out among poor Indian communities."), (3) since it does not come from a secondary source, it has not been filtered through an independent source to indicate that it is of interest to people outside the CINI.
 * You should resign yourself to the fact that the information on the CINI website, its brochures, videos and other materials is already in its proper place. People can access the website from the basic link here if they wish. What's in Wikipedia should meet the encyclopedia's goals: providing a collective summary of what secondary sources have reported about the topic of an article. Wikipedia is not meant to be a copy of or extension of the topic's website.
 * For that reason, unfortunately, I expect that very, very little of what you would like to be in the article is going to be suitable. Where you could help Wikipedia is to keep an eye out for other publications (not the CINI) reporting on, say perhaps, new areas of expansion geographically, or new initiatives, or novel partnerships. And remember, Wikipedia will likely not consider it notable if it is not reported on by a source that aims to provide news of interest to its audience. That is to say, not outlets that pass on press releases, or that document routine events without comment. Sincerely,  signed, Willondon (talk)  14:07, 14 April 2022 (UTC)