| The
Foundation has been playing a leadership role in ‘Save the
Girl Child’ campaign. A portal dedicated towards this
cause
‘www.indiafemalefoeticide.org’
was set up as a voluntary effort. The portal disseminates
information about Pre-Natal Diagnostic Termination (PNDT)
amongst all stakeholders apart from sensitizing society
about the gross violation of human rights. The portal endeavors
to build capacities of health workers, CSOs and Health Institutions
apart from seeking a net-based pledge for fighting selective
sex tests and abortions. The portal is linked to relevant
sites worldwide including that of the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare (MOH&FW), Government of India.
The
campaign has been supplemented by advocacy interventions
including dissemination of over six million e-mails worldwide,
updates on the selective sex-tests campaign to the members
of the List Serve. Offline strategies such as distribution
of posters and handbills at strategic locations. A
TV spot produced by our media partner Leo Burnett (which
has won laurels at the Cannes Film Festival) has been telecast
over several channels consistently to help increase awareness |