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Securing children’s

care and wellbeing

Strengthening Early Child safety initiatives
Childhood Care and The wellbeing of children is ‘Reliance Foundation’s

Education (ECCE) in India utmost priority, and to this end, it continues to support
Arpan, a child safety NGO. Arpan’s Personal Safety
Education programme has reached more than 1,600
Reliance Foundation is committed to supporting the children and adults, training them to be alert to child
enhancement of Early Childhood Care and Education sexual abuse. 1,950 Zilla Parishad teachers from
(ECCE) in India, recognising the importance of early Classes 1-8 also participated in these training sessions
years in brain development and laying the foundation and over 18,000 people have accessed digital child
for a child’s lifelong learning. Aligned with the vision of safety education materials from the programme.
the National Education Policy 2020, which emphasises
play-based learning at the Foundational Stage
(3-8 years) and working together with communities,
educators and experts, Reliance Foundation aims to
build evidence-based innovative models for varying
contexts across states, thus improving early
childhood development outcomes for millions of
pre-school children, especially those from
marginalised communities.
In 2021-22, 26 Anganwadi centres in Silvassa,
Gujarat, have been upgraded through these efforts,
and 21 of them have been supported with improved
amenities inside and outside along with Reliance
Nutrition Gardens, Reliance Foundation is helping
promote a replicable, scalable model for early
childhood development across India, in support of the
government’s initiatives in this area.

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