Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) envisions a world where all children are free, safe, healthy, receive quality education, and have the opportunity to realise their potential. Founded by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, KSCF has been at the forefront of ushering in policy level changes at a national level and developing international conventions on rights of children.
Our Founder
Mr. Kailash Satyarthi is one of the tallest leaders and the loudest voice in the global fight against exploitation of children.
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Our Founder
Mr. Kailash Satyarthi is an internationally acclaimed child rights activist from India who has been at the vanguard of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitation of children since 1980. He gave up a lucrative career as an Electrical Engineer for initiating crusade against child servitude. Read moreTHOSE WHO STILL
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Our Work
Programmes
Programmes
We collaborate and engage with children and stakeholders from grassroots to collectively work towards creating a child-friendly world.
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Campaigns
Campaigns
We engage, inspire and mobilize diverse groups to spread awareness and free children from all forms of exploitation including abuse, slavery and trafficking.
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Institute
Institute
We work towards generation, dissemination and application of research-driven evidence for creating a child-friendly world.
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Other Initiatives
Other Initiatives
We work across Indian and global platforms to build awareness and mobilise people to make the world child friendly.
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Latest News
News
December 28, 2020
Walk of hunger and death
Our Stars
From a brick kiln to a Bsc degree, Rajesh shows the way
As a child he also wanted to play and feel loved. But life played a cruel joke on him. For little Rajesh, repeated abuse and exploitation had robbed him of his childhood. Till he was rescued from a brick kiln in Rajasthan when he was just 8-year-old in 2007 and taken to Bal Ashram, a …
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Manan Ansari: Once a Child Labour, Now A Role Model
Like any other child of his age, Manan Ansari wanted to go to school, do well in academics and play with his friends. But life had planned otherwise. Owing to the dire financial crisis, his parents pulled him out of school when he was in 5th standard and sent him to work in mica mines …
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Neeraj Murmu: Winner of Diana Award, 2020
From Mica Mining In Rat Holes To An Educator Changing Lives Of Children Crawling through the hazardous tunnels of mica mines in Jharkhand, Neeraj risked his life every single day to collect mica scrap which earned him a paltry sum of Rs 5 per kilogram. Risk notwithstanding, there was virtually no choice for Neeraj. The …
Payal Jangid – Winner of Goalkeepers Global Change Maker Award, 2019
From preventing her own marriage as a child to making the village child marriage fre Payal was just 11 years old when she took a decisive step to fight against her family members who were forcing her to discontinue schooling and get married instead. She was a part of KSCF’s Bal Mitra Gram™ which encouraged …
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Champa Kumari – Winner of Diana Award, 2019
Crusader against Child Marriage Champa Kumari was 12 years old when she was rescued from a mica mine in Giridih district of Jharkhand by our sister organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA). A resident of Jamdar village, she had always dreamt of going to school, but her father was against it. Her brothers, however, saw the …
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