Advocacy & Capacity Building

Under an initiative to make Child Exploitation Free Villages in Koderma and Giridih districts of Jharkhand run by Bal Kalyan Sangh and supported by TDH Netherlands, children of Balmanch has met with Shri Ramesh Gholap, Deputy Commissioner of Koderma district and shared their views. They also shared about the plantation program by them for water conservation. 1000 plants have been planted by children also, members of Bal Manch are planning plantation of additional 5100 plants. (more…)

Self introduction of participants was held after which business session started. Shri. Rakesh Sengar, (Project Director, BBA) said that we all always talk and discuss about child-protection. In this regard, I would like to say thatthere are two types of act that comes under it

1. Juvenile Justice Act and
2. Child Protection Act (Balz Sanrakshan Adhiniyam)

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        1^st Day- KISHORE-KISHORI & YUVA SAMVAD           With Nobel Laureate Dr. Kailash Satyarthi An interactive session (Kishore-Kishori & Yuwa Samvad) with Nobel Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi was organized by BBA and BKS, meant to support campaigns for combating trafficking and child labour, in association with the state Social Welfare Department, JSCPCR and NGO partners like Plan India, CINI, Save the Children, Chhotanagpur Samaj Vikas Sansthan, Prerna, OAK Foundation, Jan Sarokar and Ekjut at hotel BNR Chanakya, Ranchi, on 22^nd May, 2017. Shri. Sanjay Kr. Mishra said that new acts for children will create a milestone for children. This is the result of all those campaigns done till now. From 12 June we will focus to reach out all those children who are away from education. (more…)

BKS works with the police, government, judiciary, Civil Society and vulnerable communities to help them to recognize their rights, taboos existing in our society like human trafficking and child labour. BKS also runs awareness raising programmes in communities on the importance of education and health care for mothers and young children. It has organized different state level sensitization workshops on child labour elimination and anti - human trafficking, adoption and non-institutional care and HIV-AIDS, migration and migrant children. BKS has also done capacity building of Community Groups, continuous counseling of parents and with its efforts it has been able to join the families of vulnerable children with govt. schemes (income generation programmes like MNREGA Programmes, SGSY Programmes and making BPL Cards  for them and other schemes etc. (more…)