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 long term rehabilitation home established by Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash …

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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 in Jharkhand’s mica mines in Koderma district. There were 10 …

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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 acute financial crunch his family was going through left his …

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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 children to take democratic action to bring about positive change …

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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 spark in her eyes whenever she spoke about school and …

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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 shop free which eventually led to alcohol consumption free CFVs. 5 …

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