Child Welfare Committee

Rescuing 27 Children from Bonded Labour in North West Delhi – Indian Masterminds
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Rescuing 27 Children from Bonded Labour in North West Delhi – Indian Masterminds

The result of acute poverty and caste-based discrimination, bonded labour or debt bondage starts when a person accepts and gives in to slavery as security against a loan, or when they inherit a debt from someone in the family. Sometimes, the debt can be passed down the generations and children can be held in debt…

1,623 victims of child trafficking rescued from 16 states in June: BBA – Tribune India
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1,623 victims of child trafficking rescued from 16 states in June: BBA – Tribune India

PTI New Delhi, July 1 Sunil worked at a Chennai bakery for 12 hours a day for an income so meagre that it did not meet even his own expenses and innocent indulgences. He is just 14. Sixteen-year-old Renu worked as a domestic help in a posh locality in Delhi, sacrificing her childhood. Separated by…

Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking
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Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking

Cyclone-battered South 24 Paraganas is one of country’s poorest districts & hunting ground for traffickers It has been a stormy life for cousins Tisha and Salima. Growing up in the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, they remember cyclones as major milestones in their lives. Still in their teens, they have endured…