"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The Urgency
We can wait for many things we need. The child cannot. Now is the time his/her bones are being formed, his/her blood is being made, his/her mind is being developed. To him/her we cannot say tomorrow, his/her name is today.
The Visionary
Throughout his long career, Jim Grant has been a towering figure of vision, strength, statesmanship, and leadership, in the endless struggle to improve the survival and development of children around the world. His deep insight, boundless energy, originality of thought, universality of understanding, devotion to duty, tireless spirit, and ceaseless plotting for action will continue to spur us on in the future, as this rare combination of qualities did in the past.
The Harvester
Augustine Veliath is a former UNICEF Communication Strategist. Children paid his salary, and are paying his pension. Therefore, children speak to him and he speaks for them.
The Photographer
Shikha Khanna is a portrait photographer specializing in baby and child photography for the past 20 years. She is incidentally India’s first baby and child photographer. She is now heading a world initiative for bringing out coffee table books for mums across the world.
The New Mission
Profits from the sale of this book will go to projects that add digital power to care leavers. Care leavers are children who are now in care homes, but are just about to take off on their own as adults.
Augustine Veliath
For 23 long years, Augustine Veliath served as a Communication Strategist at UNICEF. He loved and lived the ideas that have been shared in this book.
He has an experience of over 45 years as a communication strategist, social mobilizer, writer, publisher, and communication trainer.
Mr. Veliath is a trained journalist. He joined VHAI as a Health Communication Specialist in 1975. He then served as the Head of its Publications Department for 10 years.
He has also served as a Media Advisor to the Government of India.
A passionate advocate of child rights, he has contributed to many national campaigns.
