Italian NGO Care&Share Italia, supporting marginalised children in India, appoints Indian actor Kabir Bedi as its Global Ambassador
Hyderabad, 4th January 2019: Care&Share Italia - an Italian NGO, supporting marginalised children in India through its "Street2School" initiative, has announced the appointment of the famously talented and internally acclaimed Indian actor Mr. Kabir Bedi as its Global Ambassador. .Care&Share's President Mr. Tomaso Carraro announced this on Friday at a Press Conference in Hyderabad, where Mr Kabir Bedi was also present.
Care&Share Italia was founded in 1991 with the aim of supporting marginalized children in India. Through child sponsorship and international cooperation projects, Care&Share provides access to quality education to more than 1500 vulnerable children and the possibility to continue their studies up to university. Care&Share strongly believes that education is the only tool through which an individual can autonomously break the cycle of poverty. For this reason, it supports and invests in the talent of children living in difficult circumstances so that they can access primary and secondary education and complete university even if they do not have the means to afford it.
"This day, with Kabir Bedi coming on board as our official Global Ambassador, marks an important day for Care&Share. In Kabir, we found foremost a friend, before an Ambassador. A person who has embraced our motto "Street2School", which represents our commitment to the children and their communities" says Tomaso Carraro.
Earlier on 3rd January 2019, Kabir Bedi and Tomaso Carraro, inaugurated a new Child Care Center in the slum of Sainagar Huts in Hyderabad, a project in which Care&Share invests and believes a lot. Heartfelt thanks to our team in-charge of Street2School India operations and to our partner NGO MARI for making it possible. It is a humble initiative, but makes a lot of difference in the lives of the young children residing in the slum. We endeavour to keep the kids away from the street and the unhygienic situation and bring them to school. By doing so, we will protect these children from illiteracy and child labour. A guaranteed right to education with this small and safe house to bring them from street to school!
Kabir Bedi is an Indian television and film actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other European countries iii film, television and theatre. Tomaso Carraro is the vice-chairman of an important Italian holding (Carraro Group) and the President of Care&Share Italia Onlus-ONG, since May 2016.
About Care&Share Italia Onlus ONG
Care&Share Italia was founded in 1991 by a group of friends who decided to support the children of a small village near the Bay of Bengal. The organization increased the support offered to street children after acquiring the NGO status in 2007. From 2016, Care&Share started a series of projects and activities in Andhra Pradesh and in the tribal areas of southern India, with the objective of ensuring access to quality education to vulnerable and marginalized children. Care&Share believes in a World where all children see their right to education guaranteed and where they can develop their full potential and realize their ambitions.
Currently Care&Share sponsors 1500 children and teenagers, 60% of whom are girls, in urban slums, tribal areas and amongst children mostly from the SC community. It supports another 2000 children through enhancing the basic infrastructure and improving the quality of education in the government run Anganwadi, Primary and High Schools in the urban slums and tribal villages of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Care&Share Italia also supports in building a primary school in the village of Dekkapuram and a class room in the village of Gettamputtu, in Visakhapatnam district, with the objective of promoting literacy amongst the backward Nooka Dhora and Valmiki tribes. Our aim is to develop a model school and class rooms which can be replicated for other tribal communities. Another significant initiative is our support to a project 'Educate' in the slums of Batukamma Kunta, Saingar Huts and Bhagath Singh Nagar in Hyderabad city with the aim to support children belonging to 606 families, of whom, mostly are dalits.
