Child Cell  serves as a platform to rescue and rehabilitate the children from the workforce, street, run away children and railway children towards preventing child labor and child trafficking.

Child Cell enshrines to restore the lost childhood to the neglected children who become victims of child trafficking and child labor. It acts as a catalyst in making the child rights violation more visible.

Refusing to accept the apathy and ignorance of children’s rights globally, Kailash outlined his dream by asserting, “My only aim in life is that every child is free to be a child; free to grow and develop; free to eat; sleep, see daylight; free to laugh and cry; free to play and learn; free to go to school, and above all free to dream.”

In today’s world, he said, “There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children” and held that “the biggest crises knocking on the doors of humanity today are fear and intolerance.”  Reiterating the power of education he said, “Rights, security and hope can only be restored through education”.

“Urgency in the key word. Adults can wait our time has passed, but children who’s time is here and now and in the future, can not wait,” was call from Mr Kailash Satyarthi.

Today, around 215 million children are employed throughout the world–many of them forced to work long hours as full-time laborers. In many developing nations, these children lack access to education, proper nutrition, and health care. Stripped of their right to a childhood in order to help their families put food on the table, more than half of them are fall prey to the worst forms of child labor, exposed to hazardous environments, slavery, drug trafficking and prostitution, and armed conflict. (Source: United Nations)  Official figures for India, alone, indicate there are over 12 million child laborers in the country.

ISSUES OF CONCERN

1. CHILD LABOUR & RIGHT TO EDUCATION
2. CHILD MARRIAGE
3. CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
4. MISSING CHILDREN
5. CHILDREN LIVING WITH AIDS
6. CHILD LABOUR
7. CHILD TRAFFICKING
8. CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE
9. CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION
10. STREET CHILDREN
11. CHILDREN IN POVERTY
12. SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION
13. CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE

          Our Objectives

• To provide shelter and education for the street and runaway children towards their comprehensive development.
• To facilitate a process to restore their lost childhood.
• To create a space for the neglected children to bring out their hidden talents and to acquire knowledge and skills to enhance their status.
• • To equip the school drop out street and run away children to enhance their capacity to rejoin the formal schools.
  • To bring positive attitudinal change among the school going children, towards the working children and the street children.
  • To make visible status of child workers at wider levels.
  • To enable the non-school going children to compete with other children thereby to bring out their talents and to help them to instill confidence among themselves.
  • To promote the concept of a child providing education to another child.
  • To instill confidence and positive attitudinal change towards life among the street and run away children.

• Activities

  

• Non Formal Education Centers for child laborers and dropout children to impart education and alternate education for enhancing their knowledge and skills.
• Transit Home rehabilitates rescued and abandoned children in railway and bus platforms, with accommodation, free food and clothing.
• Creches for the growth of children of working and ailing mothers.
• Bridge Course centres for rescued children to enable them to rejoin the mainstream educational system.
• Residential alternative education centre for child laborers.
• Campaign, lobbying and advocacy towards promoting child rights.
• Networking and solidarity actions.
• Human rights and environmental education to school going children and community.
• Sustainable ecological theme park for street and abandoned children to create an opportunity to play and relax.
• Promoting values of environmental education to young children.