Child Protection

ChildFund India works towards ensuring that all children live in protective and enabling environment, free from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Apart from an absolute intervention, Child protection is intrinsically woven into all our interventions as we believe that abuse of any sort threatens a child’s health, learning opportunities and other development areas. To protect children, we support families to ensure that their children are nurtured in safe environment, we educate communities about children’s need for protection and we empower children to understand and exercise their right to protection and raise their voice against violence.

Projects

Protective, Enabling, Accountable and Child-Friendly Environment (PEACE)

The PEACE project was implemented to strengthen child protection structures, systems and mechanisms in 50 villages in Gogunda Block, Udaipur District, Rajasthan from 2019 to 2021. The overall goal of the project was to ensure that all children of Gogunda thrive in a protective and enabling environment at the family, school, and community levels. Under this project, we worked towards encouraging and creating community structures such as children’s clubs, child protection committees, village-level child protection committees (VLCPC), addressing socio-cultural barriers towards gender equality, education and child protection, strengthening knowledge and capacities of stakeholders through meetings, workshops, and training on child rights and children protection issues with a focus on their roles and responsibilities and creating a safety net for children in the community.

Geographies Covered

Udaipur district, Rajasthan

SDGs Covered

Supported By

Barnfonden

Disha – Preventing Child Labor

Since 1994, ChildFund India has been implementing Disha in the Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Disha promotes sustainable community-based strategies for the prevention of this child labor. It is committed to bringing children out of the clutch of labor by providing health, educational, and livelihood support.

The project mobilizes communities, parents, especially women to sensitize the wider community regarding child labor and strengthens public opinion against child deprivation. Children are empowered by encouraging school enrollment, creating children’s forums and ensuring that they, along with their families, can access healthcare facilities.

Besides, it encourages entrepreneurship in adolescents and children are given training under the ‘Sustainable Livelihood Development Program’ so they can achieve their full potential and fulfill their dreams.

Geographies Covered

Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh

SDGs Covered

Supported By

ChildFund

Combatting Child Trafficking through Sustainable Livelihood Development

The project was implemented in 15 villages across Kotada and Jhadol blocks of Udaipur, Rajasthan between April 2016 and September 2019. Under this project, we worked to combat child trafficking and child labor. We also provided vulnerable families with alternate livelihood for income generation and capacitate, sensitize and institutionalize stakeholders dealing with prevention of trafficking – police, lawyers, NGOs, government and administration.

During the project, we created awareness on child trafficking and prevention steps amongst parents, youth, the press and the larger community. We provided agro-pastoral support to improve the livelihood of the beneficiaries and linked them with government schemes and social programs. Similarly, we trained police and law enforcement in the formal system, set up community groups such as child welfare committees, vigilance squads and ensured enrollment of drop-out children in schools across the 15 villages.

Geographies Covered

Udaipur district, Rajasthan

SDGs Covered

Supported By

ChildFund Deutschland and BMZ: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Mukti Project

Since 2016, we have been implementing Mukti Project in Rajarhat, Bhangar II of North and South 24 Pargana districts, respectively, of West Bengal with the help of a local partner. The main objective of the project is to reduce the vulnerability of children of migrant brickfield laborers in West Bengal by ensuring their rights to basic education, health, immunization and protection from abuse. To reduce the vulnerability of 220 children of migrant brick-kiln laborers, belonging to the age group of 3–14, in 4 brick-fields in the project areas. The project has worked towards providing children with education, nutrition, access to public health, immunization services and brought about more awareness of their rights. It has also worked to sensitize and motivate parents from 400 families of migrant laborers. The project has successfully established educational centers at the 4 brickfields, which helped children to improve their numeracy skills and language proficiency.

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Health

Education

Livelihood

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