Kolkata: National level NGO Child In Need Institute (CINI) launched a Drowning Prevention Campaign “Freedom from Drowning”, an initiative for the children of Sundarbans to save them from drowning on the eve of nation’s 75th Independence Day, says a press release.
CINI also organized an interactive session with the children from Sundarbans and highlighted the risk factors and need for more accurate and effective data collection on drowning deaths. The children also took out a Candle March in memory of those who died due to drowning in the region.
Child Speakers from different Child Parliaments of Sundarbans were present to share their own perspective regarding pain of child death, their sufferings and emotions and called on the Administration to create a child friendly community to save them from Drowning and make a national drowning prevention plan to prevent unnecessary and avoidable deaths at the event.
CINI had recently organized a ‘Child…