Reports

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.

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.

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.

Aangan trained community women volunteers across 7 hotspot districts with high rates of child trafficking, child labor, child marriage or exploitation to bring about a positive change in their communities

A rigorous study of Aangan’s preventive approach to child harm by Harvard FXB in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh that builds an evidence-based case for the need of accelerated investments in prevention.

A story dedicated to the data-shy women, adolescent girls and community workers that embarked on a path-breaking journey of demystifying and applying community-level data for keeping children safe.

In 240 villages and urban settlements across 20 hotspot districts of 6 states: Bihar, UQar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Odisha; Aangan brought together 4450 women volunteers and 290 government officials to make communites safer for children.

From Bhubaneswar to Patna, Varanasi, Bhopal and Mumbai, the urban slum is a dangerous place for a child to grow up in. This report documents the interwoven factors that contribute to child vulnerability in these cities and the key resources needed to reverse it.