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MEWSIC CENTRES Australian cricketer Brett Lee whose fast paced deliveries on the field have left us in awe is now set to touch the lives of the children in India off the cricket field though his other passion Music. 17th May 2011 was day of excitement for the whole community as crowds of people gathered to catch a glimpse of the famed cricketer in Govandi as he arrived to launch his foundation MEWSIC. But as Brett put it, the day wasn’t about him, the ‘cricketer’ but the children and bringing the joy of music to them. And true to his word that is how Brett spent his time at the launch. Brett Lee launched his foundation MEWSIC with the inauguration of the Music Centre in partnership with Pratham in Sanjay Nagar. Read the Full Story

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Education To make education accessible and available to children from critical backgrounds.
Rehabilitation of children through education.
Strategy to convince the employers that children should not work

Education is one of the key programs in which there are manifold strategies to ensure that children are brought back into the education net. Education is also our non controversial entry point program and final strategy for rehabilitation of working children and other children in need of care and protection. Read the Full Story

Rehabilitation for children
Lack of a proper rehabilitation plan is one of the major challenges faced by National and International agencies. More than only withdrawing children from work, rehabilitation implies providing former child labourers and vulnerable children with proper facilities to maintain them away from work and mainstream them back into the education net.

The objective of our Rehabilitation program is to ensure that vulnerable children and former child labourers not only enjoy their basic rights to childhood but are also given quality education for proper social reintegration. Read the Full Story

Rescue & Repatriation After a few years of collaboration with the owners, PCVC changed its strategy and took the decision to start removing the children from work.

This whole movement started with the cruel death of a child labourer named Afzal in Govandi. This issue was advocated to the political bosses in Maharashtra and thus was formed theState Task Force on child labour in 2005 under the chairmanship of the labour commissioner. Read the Full Story

Awareness and Advocacy While working on the issue of vulnerable children our aim has always been to demonstrate successful programs at the grass root level and through advocacy ensure that the Government replicates these models.

Right from the inception of PCVC, awareness and advocacy have been a major part of our activities. There have been different kinds of awareness programs to reach out to different target groups and stake holders in the community. Media and the civil society have been our vehicles for awareness and advocacy on the issue of working children and vulnerable children. Read the Full Story

Special Events
The Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC) has been working for the rights of children across the slum communities in Mumbai since 2001. One of the most glaring observations in these slums has been the low standards of hygiene and sanitation practiced by the government and the residents making them susceptible to all kinds of illnesses and in addition also affects the productivity of the workforce and the development of the children. These appalling conditions that children live in are a violation of their right to a safe and healthy childhood. Read the Full Story

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In 2011-12, PCVC successfully enrolled 7,824 children in formal schools across 7 States in India.

The Ex Deputy Chief Minister and current Home Minister,
Mr. R R Patil translated....

The Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC) was born in April 2001 to reach out to the most vulnerable, unreached children. The idea was to withdraw them from their exploitative conditions and ensure their proper rehabilitation in family, school and society.

Co-joined twins rescued by PCVC Mumbai!

Recently, the PCVC Mumbai team encountered a case of co-joined twins in Mumbai. The co-joined twins were born on 6th May morning, the parents being illiterate treated the twins as a "bad omen",and were going to sacrifice their lives. However, due to the timely intervention of the PCVC Mumbai staff, Navnath Kamble, Subhash Rajan and Suresh Konga 8th May, the twins lives were saved. They convinced the parents for several hours, after which they admitted the twins to Wadia Hosptital in Mumbai. In addition, they convinced the hospital authorities to treat the children for free.

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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Co-joined twins rescued by PCVC Mumbai!

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

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