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Child protection

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  • Funded byChildline India (GoI), DCPU Darbhanga
  • DurationSince 2016
  • CoverageMadhubani, Darbhanga
Schoolgirls at a child protection session
  • 52 birth certificates issued this year and 38 applications in process; more than 410 children were born in survivor communities over the last years.
  • 46 children brought back to school from brick kilns and other work.
  • Tola-level meetings, hoardings and school sessions on child rights and protection, and Childline 1098 promoted at district, block, panchayat and village level.

BSS ran the Government of India Childline project in 6 blocks of Madhubani from September 2016, giving medical help, shelter, repatriation, restoration and protection to 761 children. With the community and police, 32 child marriages were stopped and 132 child labourers freed. With DCPU Darbhanga, child protection taskforces were formed in 60 villages with 316 members, and 4,862 birth registrations were issued.