The Vulnerable Child and the Climate Crisis, examines how the climate crisis is dismantling the very foundations of childhood: safety, care, schooling, and belonging. The report brings evidence and stories from the ground to reframe the climate discourse through the lens of child protection and justice.

It highlights how irregular attendance—often overlooked—signals early risk of dropout, especially among adolescent girls. In Jharkhand's Pakur, Dumka and Jamtara districts, Aangan’s School and Safety Program supported 353 School Safety Committees that brought together schools, community women, and girls to identify barriers and take joint action. Structured tracking and community-led efforts helped re-engage students and prevent child protection harms, calling for a shift from enrolment drives to sustained attendance monitoring.

Safety of Children: A Shared Responsibility - Our work in the past year was directed towards catalyzing change and taking pioneering steps towards bringing different stakeholders, such as communities, government systems and adjacent sector CSOs, together to prioritize the safety and protection of children.

A look at the efforts of community women from Patna who sprang into action to prevent child marriages at a time when state resources were overstretched and NGOs were unable to reach communities because of restrictions on movement.

Meeting the challenge : A pandemic, a brutal lockdown, joblessness, hunger, fear, isolation, school closure - this was the year where disruption and devastation reigned supreme.