Female infanticide, the deliberate killing of female infants soon after birth, is an undeniable phenomenon in certain areas of India. Though there is no good data on the number of cases, the occurrences of female infanticide persist in silence and denial.

Children’s Home Society & Family Services (CHSFS) has partnered with Madras Social Service Guild (MASOS) to create a Female Infanticide Prevention Program (FIPP) to help educate pregnant women and their families about their family planning options so they can hopefully keep their children and family intact. CHSFS and MASOS will also work to create safe havens for families to leave their unwanted newborns. Our mobile education unit of trained counselors will allow us to go to multiple communities. Every baby surrendered and/or family counseled will be a life saved.

Successful intervention strategies depend on gaining the trust of the communities in which we will serve. We are committed to this project for the long-term with a goal of an effective and self-sustaining program. We believe that success in a few villages would spread hope and motivate change in other communities.

But, we cannot do this alone. We need your support to help us establish this vital program. Donations are needed to help us create training and promotional materials, train educators, establish safe havens, purchase the mobile unit, to pay for staff and other program supplies.

We ask for your donation to help a child escape a tragic fate.

For more information about gender imbalance in India, please listen to this recent BBC Radio Report.