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Everyone who works with children, directly or indirectly, should know how to keep them safe. We're committed to helping you do that.

Our framework for child protection - Listen, Identify, Intervene and Respond , Support - is adaptable for all kinds of partners, be they government, civil society or communities.

If you're ready to make child protection a part of your work - talk to us. 
We’d like to help you do it. — contact@aanganindia.org

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When children are safe, they learn, thrive and succeed.

Their lives are free from violence, fear and exploitation so they can attend school, access support, avoid risky situations and become responsible future leaders.

Impact Report 2021 

This year’s focus was giving children what they need, where they are and how systems and communities came together to make that happen.

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Averting Child Marriage during COVID - 19

2 May 2022

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.

Impact Report 2021-2022

1 March 2022

We were able to give children what they needed, no matter where they were or what they were experiencing. This was possible because all involved (people and systems) were already working together.

Impact Report 2020-2021

1 March 2021

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

Alone Together Report

1 January 2021

A team of young researchers shed light on the plight of urban loneliness experienced by adolescent girls during the lockdown, with viable suggestions to combat the loneliness engulfing this already vulnerable group.

Impact Report 2019-2020

1 March 2020

This year showed us more than ever the crucial importance of strengthening systems to create resilient communities. Working with systems—both formal and informal—to ensure that every child is safe from any kind of vulnerability is our job every day of the year.

The Indian Forum

23 June 2021

Child Marriages During the Pandemic

Here’s how women’s & girls’ panels trained by Aangan collaborated with the Mumbai Police.

Medium

21 June 2021

Boycotts, Bullying, and the Bystander

Research shows that when bystanders intervene, bullying and harassment stop almost 60 percent of the time.

Lifestyle, Livemint

21 June 2021

How warmlines are helping adolescents in slums

Aangan Trust’s ConnectKaro initiative has launched toll-free phone lines for 900 communities across six cities and towns

IDR

26 May 2021

A community-based approach to prevent child marriage

More than a year into the pandemic, we need to protect children from harm and exploitation with greater urgency.

Washington Post

21 May 2021

Opinion: How to protect the orphaned children left behind by India’s second wave

Opinion: How to protect the orphaned children left behind by India's second wave

Frontline, The Hindu

27 April 2021

Aangan, a Mumbai-based organisation, averts 211 child marriages as the pandemic and attendant economic shocks lead to an increase in child marriages

Scoll.in

19 April 2021

What India can learn from community efforts in Patna to prevent child marriages during lockdown

IDR

13 April 2021

Are our cities making us lonely?

More than 178 child marriages were successfully averted in the city during the 2020, according to a study by Aangan, an NGO.

News18

12 August 2020

Men Seek Spaces to Talk About Masculinity and Mental Health

The worsening of poverty during the pandemic may well have led to a worrying spurt in marriages of girl children in India. The information available indicates that has happened, pushing back the progress of recent decades in reducing child marriages.

News18

12 August 2020

Child Marriage or Trafficking: Choice Covid-19 and Cyclone Amphan Have Left For Bengal's Vulnerable

Loneliness isn’t really a personal mental health issue. Instead, it’s embedded in how cities and systems are built and organised.

IDR

22 June 2020

A Day in the Life of a Child Protection Volunteer

This month alone, 17 women have been rescued from Bihar by the West Bengal Police and brought back to North and South 24 Parganas.

IDR

3 June 2020

Disrupting violence at home

Aangan’s child protection volunteer, in Bihar, Munni Devi, shares about how she works with her community to keep children and women safe.

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Everyone who works with children, directly or indirectly, should know how to keep them safe. We're committed to helping you do that.

Our framework for child protection - Listen, Identify, Intervene and Respond , Support - is adaptable for all kinds of partners, be they government, civil society or communities. If you're ready to make child protection a part of your work - talk to us. We’d like to help you do it. Write to us at contact@aanganindia.org

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