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Everyone who works with children, directly or indirectly, should know how to keep them safe. We're committed to helping you do that.

Our framework for child protection - Listen, Identify, Intervene and Respond , Support - is adaptable for all kinds of partners, be they government, civil society or communities.

If you're ready to make child protection a part of your work - talk to us. 
We’d like to help you do it. — contact@aanganindia.org

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When children are safe, they learn, thrive and succeed.

Their lives are free from violence, fear and exploitation so they can attend school, access support, avoid risky situations and become responsible future leaders.

Impact Report 2022-23

Safety of Children: A Shared Responsibility - Our work in the past was directed towards catalyzing change and taking pioneering steps towards bringing different stakeholders together to prioritize the safety and protection of children.

Media & Resources

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Reports

Impact Report 2019-2020

1 March 2020

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.

Impact Report 2018-2019

1 March 2019

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

Before, Not After: Harvard FXB's Study on Aangan's Child Protection Model

1 February 2019

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.

Woman and Girls Powered by Data

1 May 2018

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.

Impact Report 2017-2018

1 March 2018

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.

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In The News

Washington Post

21 May 2021

Opinion: How to protect the orphaned children left behind by India’s second wave

Opinion: How to protect the orphaned children left behind by India's second wave

Frontline, The Hindu

27 April 2021

Aangan, a Mumbai-based organisation, averts 211 child marriages as the pandemic and attendant economic shocks lead to an increase in child marriages

Scoll.in

19 April 2021

What India can learn from community efforts in Patna to prevent child marriages during lockdown

IDR

13 April 2021

Are our cities making us lonely?

More than 178 child marriages were successfully averted in the city during the 2020, according to a study by Aangan, an NGO.

News18

12 August 2020

Men Seek Spaces to Talk About Masculinity and Mental Health

The worsening of poverty during the pandemic may well have led to a worrying spurt in marriages of girl children in India. The information available indicates that has happened, pushing back the progress of recent decades in reducing child marriages.

News18

12 August 2020

Child Marriage or Trafficking: Choice Covid-19 and Cyclone Amphan Have Left For Bengal's Vulnerable

Loneliness isn’t really a personal mental health issue. Instead, it’s embedded in how cities and systems are built and organised.

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Everyone who works with children, directly or indirectly, should know how to keep them safe. We're committed to helping you do that.

Our framework for child protection - Listen, Identify, Intervene and Respond , Support - is adaptable for all kinds of partners, be they government, civil society or communities. If you're ready to make child protection a part of your work - talk to us. We’d like to help you do it. Write to us at contact@aanganindia.org

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