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OUR INDIA STORY
The 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