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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, has appointed CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF) as the nodal agency for initiating and sustaining CHILDLINE's across the nation.
CHILDLINE 1098 service is a 24 hour free emergency phone outreach service for children in need of care and protection. CIF undertakes replication of CHILDLINE, networking and facilitation, training, research and documentation, and awareness and advocacy both at the national and international level.
This is a project supported by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and linking state Governments, NGOs, bilateral /multilateral agencies and corporate sector . CIF is responsible for the establishment of CHILDLINE centres across the country. CIF also functions as a national centre for awareness, advocacy and training on issues related to child protection.
Vision & Mission
CHILDLINE’s Vision: To protect the rights of children in need of care and protection
CHILDLINE’s Mission
CHILDLINE aims at responding to the emergency needs of every child in need of care and protection throughout the country, ensuring that there is an integrated effort between the government, non-government organisations, academic institutions, bilateral agencies, corporates and the community in protecting the rights of children. India is home to almost 19% of the world’s children. More than one third of the country’s population, around 440 million, is below 18 years. Promoting Child Protection and Child Rights for our children is consequently a crucial issue.
Who is a Child?
According to International Law, a ‘child’ means every human being below the age of 18 years. Childhood is characterized as a period of special consideration in human rights terms, as a period of evolving abilities and vulnerabilities relative to those of adults.
Today this is a universally accepted definition of a child which comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), an international legal instrument agreed and ratified by 192 States in the world to promote Child Protection and Child Rights.
What is ‘Child ‘Protection?
Child protection is crucial to ensuring that children under 18 years of age have the rights, confidence and environment in which they can make choices, express their views and communicate effectively with other children and adults.
It is a broad term to describe philosophies, policies, standards, guidelines and procedures whose aim is to protect children from both intentional and unintentional harm and from vulnerability.
Child protection incorporates both prevention and care as well as recovery and rehabilitation aspects. Children can only become change agents to improve their lives and that of their families and communities if they are safeguarded from abuse, discrimination and harm of any kind, be it physical, sexual, emotional or neglect.
What are ‘Child’ Rights?
A right is as an agreement or a “social contract” established between the persons who hold a right (often referred to as the “rights-holder”) and the persons or institutions which then have obligations and responsibilities in relation to the realisation of that right (often referred to as the “duty-bearer”.)
Child Rights can be defined as the fundamental, vital freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings below the age of 18. These rights apply to every child, irrespective of the child's, parent's / legal guardian's race, colour, sex, creed or other status.
History
The first 10 years
'The journey of even a ten thousand miles starts with a single step.'
Our first step took almost 3 years in the making - 3 years of understanding the needs of children on the streets of India, of figuring out how to reach them effectively, of putting in place the structure that could take the child in distress and mainstream his or her life.
What was coming across in those early days was the need for a toll free , 24 hour service, that could work across cities, which children could access from anywhere at anytime!
CHILDLINE was founded by Ms. Jeroo Billimoria, who was then a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai. Initiated in June 1996 as an experimental project of the department of Family and Child Welfare of TISS, CHILDLINE has come a long way today, to becoming a nationwide emergency helpline for children in distress.
The Rewards of an Award
The Bombay Community Public Trust Award,2004, for Innovative Documentation Global Development Network Award
Agfund International prize for pioneering developmental Project in 2003 in recognition of its distinguished role in the field of protection of child against abuse and negligence
Second prize in the category of the Japanese Award for most innovative Development project. (Sixth Annual Development Conference at Dakar, Senegal)
We don't work for awards, but we value recognitions from our peers worldwide as it motivates us to set new standards. These awards are for what CHILDLINE is, not just the efforts of a few individuals. It makes us happy to know that the world is watching this unique movement in India and wants to take home the model.
A Glimpse Of The Future
At CHILDLINE working on the future all the time, is the single most important activity. We have chalked down a few things we wish to achieve in the coming years.
Reach: 10 million children per year.
Envisioning NICP to make it the most comprehensive initiative in the country for mainstreaming Child Protection - The Child Protect Net.
Reinvigorating Children's participation in CHILDLINE through Children's Advisory Councils.
Making Advocacy on US Dollar/issues a major thrust area for the entire network.
Enhance service excellence and move from being activity oriented to being goal oriented.
Prioritise CHILDLINE launch to the most under represented and under reached thematic child right areas.
Optimise new technologies for upscaling CHILDLINE reducing cost per call and making operations systems leaner and more professional.
Make CHILDLINE the most recognised reference point for Child Rights.
Recognition And Awards
CHILDLINE India was awarded the 'Highest Pledge Raising NGO' at the Mumbai Marathon held on 20th of January 2008. This year a large number of people ran for CHILDLINE and raised funds for CHILDLINE. They were visible with their bright green CHILDLINE T Shirts and their CHILDLINE flags and banners.
10 corporate teams as well as companies like Mphasis, DSP Merrill Lynch, L&T, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company, Star TV, Sanofi Aventis, British Gas, India Bulls and Axis Bank also ran for CHILDLINE. There were also four dream runners - Queenie Dhody, Mr Mihir Dhosi, Mr Farrokh Kavarana and Mr Arijit Sengupta. Individuals and volunteer groups, ranging from students of Xaviers College to young corporates from Mercer and Future Generali and Mr Shashi Raghunandan from Times of Money all joined in to support CHILDLINE.
A team from CHILDLINE India Foundation and CHILDLINE Mumbai including children, ran the Dream Run, while shouting slogans about CHILDLINE 1098 and creating awareness about the service.
o CHILDLINE India Foundation has been awarded the National award in the Medium sized NGOs category by the Resource Alliance Indian NGO Award for 2007. CHILDLINE was the regional finalist from Western Region. At the national level the award was a tie between Banyan Tree and CIF.The process for selection took nearly three months and involved submissions, interviews, evaluations at our office, etc. Watch the video - http://youtube.com/user/khemkafoundation.
Chosen as finalists for the Bombay Community Public Trust award, 2004 for excellence among voluntary organizations in Mumbai which had a theme of Knowledge sharing & Project Documentation
o CHILDLINE India Foundation was among the top three finalists for the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2004 at the Global Development Network's Sixth Annual Development Conference at Dakar, Senegal
The Agfund Award, 2003 - CHILDLINE received the Agfund International prize for pioneering developmental Project in 2003 in recognition of its distinguished role in the field of protection of child against abuse and negligence
CHILDLINE India Foundation : Child Protection Issues
Protecting Children from Abuse and Violence
Violence against children occurs when a child experience harm, usually as the result of failure on the part of the parent or caregiver to ensure a reasonable standard of care and protection. It includes neglect or negligent treatment, harassing behavior like bullying; mental and physical abuse and injury; exploitation and sexual abuse.
Read More
Protecting Children from Trafficking
Child trafficking affects children throughout the world, in both industrialized and developing countries. Trafficking of children links consequently all countries and regions in a web of international crime. Every year, children are smuggled across borders and sold like commodities. Others are trafficked within their home countries, usually from rural to urban areas. Trafficking not only violates the children rights guaranteed under international law but it threatens also Children’s survival, development and clearly their protection.
Read More
Protecting Children from Child Labor
"Child labor" is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education and better future opportunities.
Child labor is very common, and can be work in factory, in mining, in agriculture, in teashop or sweatshop. Most of children are forced to do repetitive jobs such as assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. They work also as waiters, guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants. However, the main proportion of child labor occurs in the informal sector, children sell on the street, work in agriculture or work as domestic laborers.
Protecting Children from Child Marriage
Child marriage involves the marriage of anyone below the age of 18. It is the marriage of a child to an adult or another child, and may be legally condoned by national laws.
These marriages are often unregistered and unofficial but they can also be given legal sanction because of legislative loopholes that in fact camouflage the sexual exploitation of children. They are arranged in various ways and involve both boys and girls. It is more usual for girls to be married to boys and men who are older than them while boys are more commonly married to girls of a similar age.
Disability
Disability is a source of stigma for the child and his/her family. They are ostracized and looked down upon by the community. Children with physical, psycho-social, intellectual or sensory impairments encounter in their daily lives a combination of social, cultural, behavioral and physical barriers. Those suffering from mental illness or mental retardation are subject to the worst stigma and severe social exclusion.
Providing a Protection to Street Children
A street child is any child that lives and/or works on the street. Street children use the street as their source of livelihood and sometimes as a "home”. It includes children who might not necessarily be homeless or without families, but who live in situations where there is no or little protection, supervision, or direction from responsible adults. Often highly mobile, street children can alternate between living on the streets and living with their families. Some may only work on the streets during particular periods of the year, and attend school at other times. This makes it extremely difficult to estimate the total number of street children.
There are, however, relatively less children who actually live on the street compared with those who use it as a means to earn a living.
Girld Child
Girl children are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations, simply because they are girls, and therefore require additional protections. They may face the different protection issues listed in the above sections from being subjected to abuse and violence to being involved in armed-forces or being discriminated in reason of disability, caste or social origin as at the same time they are at risk of discrimination and violence on the basis of their gender.
HIV-AIDS
Around 9 out in 10 children affected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Large numbers of children with HIV also live in South/South East Asia, in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Children are primary victims of the spread of the disease: millions become orphans or contract the virus themselves
Missing Children
Every day, thousands of children are reported missing in India . Most of them are never found. Many of the abductions end tragically in rape, assault or death.
The cases of missing children are so heterogeneous that there is no adequate data or consistently applied set of definitions to describe them. In addition, many cases of missing children are not reported to the police at all for various reasons, and police involvement in the resolution of different kinds of cases varies widely across the country.
CHILDLINE India Foundation
Nana Chowk Muncipal School, 2nd Floor,
Frere Bridge - Low Level,
Nana Chowk,
Near Grant Road Station,
Mumbai 400007.
.
.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, has appointed CHILDLINE India Foundation (CIF) as the nodal agency for initiating and sustaining CHILDLINE's across the nation.
CHILDLINE 1098 service is a 24 hour free emergency phone outreach service for children in need of care and protection. CIF undertakes replication of CHILDLINE, networking and facilitation, training, research and documentation, and awareness and advocacy both at the national and international level.
This is a project supported by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and linking state Governments, NGOs, bilateral /multilateral agencies and corporate sector . CIF is responsible for the establishment of CHILDLINE centres across the country. CIF also functions as a national centre for awareness, advocacy and training on issues related to child protection.
Vision & Mission
CHILDLINE’s Vision: To protect the rights of children in need of care and protection
CHILDLINE’s Mission
CHILDLINE aims at responding to the emergency needs of every child in need of care and protection throughout the country, ensuring that there is an integrated effort between the government, non-government organisations, academic institutions, bilateral agencies, corporates and the community in protecting the rights of children. India is home to almost 19% of the world’s children. More than one third of the country’s population, around 440 million, is below 18 years. Promoting Child Protection and Child Rights for our children is consequently a crucial issue.
Who is a Child?
According to International Law, a ‘child’ means every human being below the age of 18 years. Childhood is characterized as a period of special consideration in human rights terms, as a period of evolving abilities and vulnerabilities relative to those of adults.
Today this is a universally accepted definition of a child which comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), an international legal instrument agreed and ratified by 192 States in the world to promote Child Protection and Child Rights.
What is ‘Child ‘Protection?
Child protection is crucial to ensuring that children under 18 years of age have the rights, confidence and environment in which they can make choices, express their views and communicate effectively with other children and adults.
It is a broad term to describe philosophies, policies, standards, guidelines and procedures whose aim is to protect children from both intentional and unintentional harm and from vulnerability.
Child protection incorporates both prevention and care as well as recovery and rehabilitation aspects. Children can only become change agents to improve their lives and that of their families and communities if they are safeguarded from abuse, discrimination and harm of any kind, be it physical, sexual, emotional or neglect.
What are ‘Child’ Rights?
A right is as an agreement or a “social contract” established between the persons who hold a right (often referred to as the “rights-holder”) and the persons or institutions which then have obligations and responsibilities in relation to the realisation of that right (often referred to as the “duty-bearer”.)
Child Rights can be defined as the fundamental, vital freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings below the age of 18. These rights apply to every child, irrespective of the child's, parent's / legal guardian's race, colour, sex, creed or other status.
History
The first 10 years
'The journey of even a ten thousand miles starts with a single step.'
Our first step took almost 3 years in the making - 3 years of understanding the needs of children on the streets of India, of figuring out how to reach them effectively, of putting in place the structure that could take the child in distress and mainstream his or her life.
What was coming across in those early days was the need for a toll free , 24 hour service, that could work across cities, which children could access from anywhere at anytime!
CHILDLINE was founded by Ms. Jeroo Billimoria, who was then a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai. Initiated in June 1996 as an experimental project of the department of Family and Child Welfare of TISS, CHILDLINE has come a long way today, to becoming a nationwide emergency helpline for children in distress.
The Rewards of an Award
The Bombay Community Public Trust Award,2004, for Innovative Documentation Global Development Network Award
Agfund International prize for pioneering developmental Project in 2003 in recognition of its distinguished role in the field of protection of child against abuse and negligence
Second prize in the category of the Japanese Award for most innovative Development project. (Sixth Annual Development Conference at Dakar, Senegal)
We don't work for awards, but we value recognitions from our peers worldwide as it motivates us to set new standards. These awards are for what CHILDLINE is, not just the efforts of a few individuals. It makes us happy to know that the world is watching this unique movement in India and wants to take home the model.
A Glimpse Of The Future
At CHILDLINE working on the future all the time, is the single most important activity. We have chalked down a few things we wish to achieve in the coming years.
Reach: 10 million children per year.
Envisioning NICP to make it the most comprehensive initiative in the country for mainstreaming Child Protection - The Child Protect Net.
Reinvigorating Children's participation in CHILDLINE through Children's Advisory Councils.
Making Advocacy on US Dollar/issues a major thrust area for the entire network.
Enhance service excellence and move from being activity oriented to being goal oriented.
Prioritise CHILDLINE launch to the most under represented and under reached thematic child right areas.
Optimise new technologies for upscaling CHILDLINE reducing cost per call and making operations systems leaner and more professional.
Make CHILDLINE the most recognised reference point for Child Rights.
Recognition And Awards
CHILDLINE India was awarded the 'Highest Pledge Raising NGO' at the Mumbai Marathon held on 20th of January 2008. This year a large number of people ran for CHILDLINE and raised funds for CHILDLINE. They were visible with their bright green CHILDLINE T Shirts and their CHILDLINE flags and banners.
10 corporate teams as well as companies like Mphasis, DSP Merrill Lynch, L&T, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company, Star TV, Sanofi Aventis, British Gas, India Bulls and Axis Bank also ran for CHILDLINE. There were also four dream runners - Queenie Dhody, Mr Mihir Dhosi, Mr Farrokh Kavarana and Mr Arijit Sengupta. Individuals and volunteer groups, ranging from students of Xaviers College to young corporates from Mercer and Future Generali and Mr Shashi Raghunandan from Times of Money all joined in to support CHILDLINE.
A team from CHILDLINE India Foundation and CHILDLINE Mumbai including children, ran the Dream Run, while shouting slogans about CHILDLINE 1098 and creating awareness about the service.
o CHILDLINE India Foundation has been awarded the National award in the Medium sized NGOs category by the Resource Alliance Indian NGO Award for 2007. CHILDLINE was the regional finalist from Western Region. At the national level the award was a tie between Banyan Tree and CIF.The process for selection took nearly three months and involved submissions, interviews, evaluations at our office, etc. Watch the video - http://youtube.com/user/khemkafoundation.
Chosen as finalists for the Bombay Community Public Trust award, 2004 for excellence among voluntary organizations in Mumbai which had a theme of Knowledge sharing & Project Documentation
o CHILDLINE India Foundation was among the top three finalists for the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2004 at the Global Development Network's Sixth Annual Development Conference at Dakar, Senegal
The Agfund Award, 2003 - CHILDLINE received the Agfund International prize for pioneering developmental Project in 2003 in recognition of its distinguished role in the field of protection of child against abuse and negligence
CHILDLINE India Foundation : Child Protection Issues
Protecting Children from Abuse and Violence
Violence against children occurs when a child experience harm, usually as the result of failure on the part of the parent or caregiver to ensure a reasonable standard of care and protection. It includes neglect or negligent treatment, harassing behavior like bullying; mental and physical abuse and injury; exploitation and sexual abuse.
Read More
Protecting Children from Trafficking
Child trafficking affects children throughout the world, in both industrialized and developing countries. Trafficking of children links consequently all countries and regions in a web of international crime. Every year, children are smuggled across borders and sold like commodities. Others are trafficked within their home countries, usually from rural to urban areas. Trafficking not only violates the children rights guaranteed under international law but it threatens also Children’s survival, development and clearly their protection.
Read More
Protecting Children from Child Labor
"Child labor" is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education and better future opportunities.
Child labor is very common, and can be work in factory, in mining, in agriculture, in teashop or sweatshop. Most of children are forced to do repetitive jobs such as assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. They work also as waiters, guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants. However, the main proportion of child labor occurs in the informal sector, children sell on the street, work in agriculture or work as domestic laborers.
Protecting Children from Child Marriage
Child marriage involves the marriage of anyone below the age of 18. It is the marriage of a child to an adult or another child, and may be legally condoned by national laws.
These marriages are often unregistered and unofficial but they can also be given legal sanction because of legislative loopholes that in fact camouflage the sexual exploitation of children. They are arranged in various ways and involve both boys and girls. It is more usual for girls to be married to boys and men who are older than them while boys are more commonly married to girls of a similar age.
Disability
Disability is a source of stigma for the child and his/her family. They are ostracized and looked down upon by the community. Children with physical, psycho-social, intellectual or sensory impairments encounter in their daily lives a combination of social, cultural, behavioral and physical barriers. Those suffering from mental illness or mental retardation are subject to the worst stigma and severe social exclusion.
Providing a Protection to Street Children
A street child is any child that lives and/or works on the street. Street children use the street as their source of livelihood and sometimes as a "home”. It includes children who might not necessarily be homeless or without families, but who live in situations where there is no or little protection, supervision, or direction from responsible adults. Often highly mobile, street children can alternate between living on the streets and living with their families. Some may only work on the streets during particular periods of the year, and attend school at other times. This makes it extremely difficult to estimate the total number of street children.
There are, however, relatively less children who actually live on the street compared with those who use it as a means to earn a living.
Girld Child
Girl children are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations, simply because they are girls, and therefore require additional protections. They may face the different protection issues listed in the above sections from being subjected to abuse and violence to being involved in armed-forces or being discriminated in reason of disability, caste or social origin as at the same time they are at risk of discrimination and violence on the basis of their gender.
HIV-AIDS
Around 9 out in 10 children affected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Large numbers of children with HIV also live in South/South East Asia, in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Children are primary victims of the spread of the disease: millions become orphans or contract the virus themselves
Missing Children
Every day, thousands of children are reported missing in India . Most of them are never found. Many of the abductions end tragically in rape, assault or death.
The cases of missing children are so heterogeneous that there is no adequate data or consistently applied set of definitions to describe them. In addition, many cases of missing children are not reported to the police at all for various reasons, and police involvement in the resolution of different kinds of cases varies widely across the country.
CHILDLINE India Foundation
Nana Chowk Muncipal School, 2nd Floor,
Frere Bridge - Low Level,
Nana Chowk,
Near Grant Road Station,
Mumbai 400007.
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