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Children are the forgotten victims of the pandemic. COVID has severely affected not just children's health but has caused many of them to drop out of school. Family incomes are badly hit and so is children's nutrition and health including timely immunisation. With lockdowns being relaxed, things will improve but will not get back to normal for a very long time – during which time lives, educations and futures will be lost. Help us protect our most vulnerable children. The pandemic has shown that every child is at risk. Let's reimagine our children's future. Join NDTV and UNICEF's special campaign, 'Reimagine Our Children's Future.'
The campaign aims to help protect the most vulnerable children affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Without immediate funding and key lifesaving interventions like health care, nutrition, and immunization, an additional 1,600 children could die in India everyday over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weaken health systems and disrupt routine services. Without our interventions and investments – of ideas, resources and heart - these children will have no future. It is in our hands to ensure that these forgotten victims of a catastrophic global crisis are given a future.
Here are the Highlights of the #Reimagine Telethon:
Nov 22, 2020 23:08 (IST)
We leave you with the song and its message, 'It's time to wake up'
Nov 22, 2020 23:02 (IST)
Thank you donors: At the end of the 2-hour #Reimagine Telethon over Rs 1 crore collected. To continue to support the click here and donate.
Nov 22, 2020 22:59 (IST)
Anjana Padmanabhan, Singer who won Indian Idol Junior in 2013 joins the #Reimagine telethon and talks about her experience of singing the song, 'Wake up time ho gaya ab hamare sapno ka' composed by Ricky Kej
Nov 22, 2020 22:55 (IST)
Ricky Kej, Grammy wining composer on the #Reimagine telethon, he composed a special song for UNICEF that says it is time to wake up
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Nov 22, 2020 22:47 (IST)
Riya, who made handwashing stations in her village joins the #Reimagine telethon
Nov 22, 2020 22:46 (IST)
Riya, a young girl from the village of Nogava in Madhya Pradesh has set up Handwashing stations in her village
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Nov 22, 2020 22:42 (IST)
We need support to prevent malnutrition through diets, services & information, where families play a role. Second, where prevention fails, treatment needs to be ensured by the government. And finally, marketing of unhealthy foods needs strict vigilance so that the food environment is conducive for good health and healthy lifestyle: Vani Sethi, Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF India
Nov 22, 2020 22:38 (IST)
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Priya Nair, Executive Director, Beauty & Personal Care, Hindustan Unilever Limited on #Reimagine telethon:
Nov 22, 2020 22:11 (IST)
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Nov 22, 2020 22:04 (IST)
I think good nutrition is good life: Basanta Kumar Kar, Recipient, Global Nutrition Leadership Award
Nov 22, 2020 21:55 (IST)
Unfortunately when the pandemic hit, entire health services came to standstill. Frontline workers are backbone of the system and the got involved in COVID response system. Amidst this, immunisation services came to a standstill. The risk is when essential services stop, our children are at a risk of preventable diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia. Until immunisatioln services get on track, we are able to vaccinate everyone, we have a dangerous situation: Neeraj Jain, India Country Director, PATH
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Nov 22, 2020 21:51 (IST)
This is really a devastation and has caused devastating increase in acute malnutrition. Even before pandemic we had a pretty bad situation. This has made things worse: Dr Rajan Shankar, Director, Nutrition, TATA Trust
Nov 22, 2020 21:45 (IST)
The pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the society. The scale of the problem is not just limited to one aspect of life. Disruptions to key services and increasing poverty pose the biggest threat to children: Sharmila Tagore, UNICEF Supporter & Actor
Nov 22, 2020 21:42 (IST)
We have seen physical, mental, social, and economic effects on all sections of society, but they've been particularly accentuated in their impact on children: Dr K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India
Nov 22, 2020 21:17 (IST)
We are dealing with something unique, and that immunizing children is not the same business about providing a new vaccine to a completely different group of people, which is largely going to be adults. So to some extent the delivery machine, or when, and how, and where the COVID vaccine will be offered and administered, will not necessarily crash and overlap with what is the immunization schedule for children: Luigi D’Aquino, Chief of Health, UNICEF India
Nov 22, 2020 21:10 (IST)
Vikas Srivastava, Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson India on #Reimagine telethon
Nov 22, 2020 20:52 (IST)
The crisis of child protection is not new. India has been a global leader in child labour, child marriage and trafficking long before pandemic. Pandemic has exacerbated it: Atiya Bose, Executive Director, Aangan
Nov 22, 2020 20:48 (IST)
There are many concerns - education is primary. immunisation of children is another. You have issues of missing children, domestic violence, child marriages. There is no shortage of issues: Justice Madan Lokur, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
Nov 22, 2020 20:43 (IST)
We have been able to train more than 1,50,000 frontline child protection workers and service providers on COVID risk mitigation strategies and their roles in preventing violence, exploitation, and abuse of children: Tannistha Datta, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF
Nov 22, 2020 20:31 (IST)
Our kids need to keep learning at this time more than ever before: Shaheen Mistri, CEO, Teach For India
Nov 22, 2020 20:26 (IST)
Since March, child helpline 1098 has received 3 million calls
Nov 22, 2020 20:20 (IST)
I am committed to ending violence against children: Ayushmann Khurrana, UNICEF Celebrity Advocate
Nov 22, 2020 20:16 (IST)
Sindhu Gangadharan, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, SAP Labs India on #Reimagine telethon:
Nov 22, 2020 20:10 (IST)
UNICEF will support governments to address the digital divide so that every child can learn digitally. But those who cannot, who do not have these resources, we will reach out to them through other means - television, radio, other digital means, multiple partners and even outreach strategies: Suman Sachdeva, Education Specialist, UNICEF India
Nov 22, 2020 20:08 (IST)
Suman Sachdeva, Education Specialist, UNICEF India on #Reimagine telethon
Nov 22, 2020 20:06 (IST)
We need to focus on psycho-social healing, otherwise children will otherwise be afraid of school: Aditya Natraj, CEO, Kaivalya Education Foundation & Piramal School of Leadership
Nov 22, 2020 19:59 (IST)
Children are missing out on essential learning. There are chances that many of them especially girls are not likely to even go back to school: Kareena Kapoor Khan, UNICEF Celebrity Advocate
Nov 22, 2020 19:53 (IST)
Anonymous donor donates Rs 50 lakh during the #Reimagine telethon
Nov 22, 2020 19:49 (IST)
Millions of children are losing on school hours and honing their talent. Children as a vulnerable community are at a higher risk and get pushed to child labour and trafficking: Trisha, UNICEF Celebrity Advocate
Nov 22, 2020 19:36 (IST)
Amitabh Bachchan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador emphasises on the importance of immunisation and precautions to take during COVID pandemic to ensure children don't miss their vaccine doses
Nov 22, 2020 19:32 (IST)
We are seeing that children still have aspiration and curiosity and it is important that we keep their hopes going: Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, Country Representative, UNICEF India
Nov 22, 2020 19:26 (IST)
Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, Country Representative, UNICEF India lays out how COVID is impacting children
Nov 22, 2020 19:17 (IST)
About our #Reimagine telethon partner, UNICEF, which has been on the frontline of crisis response for over 70 years
Nov 22, 2020 19:14 (IST)
There is no bigger moment in history than now to help our children, so please step up and help: Prannoy Roy on NDTV - UNICEF #Reimagine Telethon
Nov 22, 2020 19:12 (IST)
Agenda of the #Reimagine telethon explained: Children's rights have been deeply impacted by the COVID crisis, be it education or immunisation
Nov 22, 2020 19:05 (IST)
2-hour special #Reimagine Telethon gets underway. Help India's most vulnerable children, click here to donate
Nov 22, 2020 19:01 (IST)
We are all set for #Reimagine Telethon
Nov 22, 2020 18:59 (IST)
Safety first. PCR all set for the telethon
Nov 21, 2020 03:35 (IST)
Watch Live a special 2-hour #Reimagine telethon to protect our most vulnerable children who have been put at even greater risk because of the pandemic
Nov 20, 2020 19:44 (IST)
With the COVID-19 pandemic we need to ensure children receive proper healthcare, right nutrition and timely vaccines
Nov 20, 2020 19:11 (IST)
Join NDTV and UNICEF's special campaign, 'Reimagine Our Children's Future'
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