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OUR INDIA STORYThe IKEA Foundation has been supporting long-term programmes to help children and families living in poverty in India since 2000. By 2015, our programme partners had helped more than 100 million children in India. Our current work grew from IKEA’s efforts to fight child labour in its supply chain. But, early on in the endeavour, IKEA learned that to prevent child labour it is vital to address the root causes of why children work.

Today, the IKEA Foundation supports projects that change attitudes towards child labour. We provide education and support to create circles of prosperity, so children and families can break the cycle of poverty. This means making sure children have a place to call home, a healthy start in life, a quality education and a sustainable family income.

In 2017, the IKEA Foundation is working with 21 partners across 19 states in India. By working together with strong local partners, we will continue to create better lives for the many children and women in India!

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2000 IKEA launches its first social project in India, working with UNICEF to fight the root causes of child labour in Uttar Pradesh’s carpet belt.

2002 IKEA partners with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to provide immunisations across 500 villages in the carpet belt of Uttar Pradesh.

2006 Together with UNICEF, IKEA Social Initiative launches a children’s rights programme to fight child labour and protect children living near cotton and cotton-seed farms in Andhra Pradesh.

2007 IKEA Social Initiative launches a new project with UNICEF promoting children’s rights across 14 states, providing children with access to immunisations and nutrition. After severe flooding in Bihar, it develops

Milestones

a new partnership with Save the Children India to help families recover.

2008 An IKEA Social Initiative report on India’s cotton sector and child rights paves the way for a unique collaboration with UNICEF and Save the Children to promote children’s rights in India. 2009 IKEA Foundation is formed. Recognising women’s power to change their families’ lives, we pilot a women’s empowerment and livelihoods programme with UNDP. We expand our work fighting the root causes of child labour to cotton communities in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. 2011 We begin funding scholarships through the Lila Poonawalla Foundation to help girls in India obtain a higher education. We also start a new collaboration

with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to ensure thousands of children suffering from diarrhoea have access to the life-saving treatment of zinc and oral rehydration salts. 2013 We develop partnerships with Development Alternatives and Landesa to empower rural women in Uttar Pradesh with literacy classes, access to land and property rights. 2014 Our programme fighting child labour in cotton communities expands to protect children in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, in partnership with Save the Children, Pratham and Breakthrough.

2016 Our partnership with UNDP and Xyntéo aims to empower one million women to earn a sustainable income, so they can send their children to school.

OUR PARTNERS IN INDIA