PCVC extends child rights network to Darjeeling! Some highlights from the eventful visit

April, 2013: Farida ma’am, Kishor, Sneha, and Pratyush travelled to Kalimpong in the northern part of Darjeeling District, West Bengal on a consulting assignment for an organization called Bal Suraksha Abhiyan (BSA). BSA, a relatively new organization run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, is focused on child rights protection and is based in Kalimpong. At present their work is primarily focused on protection against child labour and on rescuing child workers from exploitive conditions, in addition to running a full-time shelter home for over 100 vulnerable children in Kalimpong. Our work initially began through interacting with BSA and Caritas, the funding and development agency of the Catholic Church with offices spread across many countries, who approached us sometime in 2012 to advise on data collection methods and processes during their pilot program on child rights protection.
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