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.

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.

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

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.