Google gives USD 500,000 to promote child safety in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Google has announced support to three non-profits in India, with $500,000 in grants to promote child safety campaigns. With the grant, Google aims to support nonprofits with smart applications of technology, and help scale initiatives aimed towards child safety programs and campaigns in India.

Grants through Google.org will be used to scale existing initiatives to help reach more children and create more awareness about the need to protect the future of these children.

● Childline India Foundation - Childline provides a free phone service for children in need of help or protection. By dialing 1098 any time of day or night, children or concerned adults can access care from trained providers who can connect them to government or NGO services.
● Bachpan Bachao Andolan - Google’s grant will fund BBA to create a program for fighting child sexual abuse, includin g the development of an online information site, an advocacy campaign and a national conference for experts and providers.
● Tulir - Tulir works to prevent and heal child sexual abuse across India. It offers a school-based curriculum to help children stay safe, education for professionals who work with children, resources for healing victims, and does advocacy around the issues.

Rajan Anandan, vice president & managing director, Google India and South-East Asia said, “Technology can play a significant role in transforming lives, and we are delighted to provide support to three of India's non-profit organizations such as Childline India Foundation, Bachpan Bachao An dolan an d Tulir who have been doing phenomenal work to usher in a social change by providing safety and protection to the children in our country. Children's safety and protection is a shared responsibility and initiatives around it, need collective measures. We believe that efforts made in scaling these initiative through technology can truly have a social impact and we look forward to working with these partners in India.

Globally, Google has donated over $100 million in grants, $1 billion in technology resources, and 80,000 hours of Googler volunteering to nonprofits in 2014 around the world.