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‘20 million orphaned children in India’

New Delhi: Twenty million children in the country do not have either of their parents and lack adequate care and support, an orphaned children’s welfare organization said on May 15.

SOS Children’s Villages India general secretary Rakesh Jinsi said this while releasing a report, “Family Focus-Challenges and Solutions,” at the Indian Women’s Press Corps here to mark the International Day of the Families.

He said SOS Children’s Villages in 48 years of its existence had helped 2,500 children settle into mainstream society and is currently helping 6,500 children at 33 centers across the country.