Why we workSituated in the south of the Asian continent, India is split into three large regions: the Himalayas on the northern border, the northern plains of the river Ganges to the south, and the Deccan plateau in the centre. The climate is marked by monsoons that bring heat and drought for eight months of the year, and floods for the rest.
Despite the fact that the country’s economy is one of the most rapidly growing in the world, the vast mass or rural population is poor and illiterate, and there is an enormous disparity in accessing services. Today’s India has to face up to various serious problems: overpopulation, environmental decline, extended poverty, ethnic and religious tension. Despite the improvements of the last thirty years, more than two million children die every year for infections that could have been prevented. India records the highest number of deaths of children aged between 0 and 5 in the world.