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.