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Once A Child Labourer, 15-year-old Kuldip Leads School Enrolment Drive For Children In His Jharkhand Village
Like scores of other children in his village in Domchanch block of Jharkhand’s Koderma district, Kuldip Kumar too was pushed into mica scavenging for a living when he should ideally been at school.
But Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation’s Bal Mitra Gram or Child Friendly Village programme, which was rolled out in his village in 2020,...
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KSCF Bal Panchayat Member Priyanka Kumari Plays Key Role In Rescue Of 5 Trafficked Children
The promise of a better life for their little ones was like a dream come true for parents of five children from Beko village of Jharkhand’s Koderma district. Assured of education and a steady flow of income, they let a person from the village take their children to Odisha.
Tulsi Saw, the person who had...
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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,...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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Children’s Council member leading fight against alcoholism
Alcohol consumption was a common phenomenon in the CFVs of Ganj Basoda in Madhya Pradesh and consumption of alcohol led to mental and physical abuse of children. This story covers a series of events which led to making three CFVs of Lehdera Panchayat Along with Sahwa and Bhilay CFV of Ganj Basoda block liquor...
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Bal Panchayat advocating their way to change the quality of education
Education is the fundamental right of every child, as guaranteed by the Indian Constitution and a CFV facilitates this right through empowerment, building capacity of community members (children, women and young people) to use their voice to demand change. The Children’s Council of Pihra CFV of Giridih district in Jharkhand is an example of...
