Objectives of the Organization

• To Endeavour, to achieve and consolidate the rightful position of the children in general to the benefits and services to which they are entitled as children, and to a healthy and safe environment which their due as human beings.
• To Endeavour, to protect, maintain and develop children’s inherent right to peaceful existence and quality of life to which they are entitled.
• To make all efforts to protect and promote children’s interests and make children aware of their rights, strengths, duties and responsibilities through educational and training programmes or otherwise;
• To carry out statistical research and research in social sciences relevant to children and their families;
• To secure the effective use of the legal process to children’s grievances;
• To seek improvement in the areas of child health, education, recreation, safety and the environment;
• To create and mobilize public opinion.

Major Activities conducted

Initiative for Married Adolescent Girls Empowerment (IMAGE Next)

At present IMAGE Project covers 3077 EMGs in five districts(Vidar, Bagalkote, Balagavi, Chamraj Nagar and Chikkaballapura). In five years the project will work among 15000 early married girls and survivors from 15 districts across Karnataka.

The goal of the project is to empower girls and young women who are victims and survivors of early child marriage to improve they access to rights, opportunities and services in Karnataka.

Thematic areas of project interventions  are: Movement building and strengthening, Norms and behaviour changes in family and society level, Leadership development and capacity building, Engagement with  government and other stakeholders.

Bengaluru Child line nodal office: Child Rights Trust is functioining as the ChildLine nodal agency  since 2007. The objectives of the nodal agency of ChildLine 1098 is to coordinate with the  ChildLine 1098 collaborative organisations (APSA, BOSCO and SATHI)  and with various other stakeholders- government departments such as police , DWCD,  Education, Health, social Welfare, Railways and other NGOs to provide justiice to children in distress. ChildLine also gets involved in rescuing children from various working situations, from railway stations , bus stands and those who are begging in streets.

Children’s Libraries

Chagaletti Rural children’s library which continues to work with the local children and schools, has widened its reach. In its 9th year with the Pratham organisation a new initiative has been taken up to raise donations in the form of ‘donate-a-book’. The idea is to start another set of 10 libraries in the near future.

Along with encouraging the children to read books, public speaking, painting and craft classes have been introduced during the reporting period.

Children’s Museum Project

With the initial support from a donor with both: her own family collection of artifacts, and financial support, a Children’s Museum was inaugurated in the current year. The museum is housed at SPARSHA, an NGO (Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru) with a child care institution. We thank Ms. Kalpana for the design for the layout and display of the material. Thanks to the children of SPARSHA who have enthusiastically taken on the role of curators!

About

Karnataka Child Rights Observatory (KCRO)

The Karnataka Child Rights Observatory was set up on CRT’s initiative in mid 2008. KCRO an advocacy forum for the advancement of child rights in Karanataka, is run by a consortium of NGOs, academics and individuals working in the field. It converge to provide Evidence based advocacy,Working with key stakeholders and Working with media

RTE Task Force which was  initiated in 2011 is not solely funded by any groups. The network member organization an individuals are bearing minor expenses. Task force is conducting training, meetings, and discussions amongst the members in order to know the status implementation and situation of RTE act. The programme also extend its services to the request of NGOs, school management and parents groups who require orientation on RTE.

Objectives of the Organization

• To Endeavour, to achieve and consolidate the rightful position of the children in general to the benefits and services to which they are entitled as children, and to a healthy and safe environment which their due as human beings.
• To Endeavour, to protect, maintain and develop children’s inherent right to peaceful existence and quality of life to which they are entitled.
• To make all efforts to protect and promote children’s interests and make children aware of their rights, strengths, duties and responsibilities through educational and training programmes or otherwise;
• To carry out statistical research and research in social sciences relevant to children and their families;
• To secure the effective use of the legal process to children’s grievances;
• To seek improvement in the areas of child health, education, recreation, safety and the environment;
• To create and mobilize public opinion.

Major Activities conducted

Initiative for Married Adolescent Girls Empowerment (IMAGE Next)

At present IMAGE Project covers 3077 EMGs in five districts(Vidar, Bagalkote, Balagavi, Chamraj Nagar and Chikkaballapura). In five years the project will work among 15000 early married girls and survivors from 15 districts across Karnataka.

The goal of the project is to empower girls and young women who are victims and survivors of early child marriage to improve they access to rights, opportunities and services in Karnataka.

Thematic areas of project interventions  are: Movement building and strengthening, Norms and behaviour changes in family and society level, Leadership development and capacity building, Engagement with  government and other stakeholders.

Bengaluru Child line nodal office: Child Rights Trust is functioining as the ChildLine nodal agency  since 2007. The objectives of the nodal agency of ChildLine 1098 is to coordinate with the  ChildLine 1098 collaborative organisations (APSA, BOSCO and SATHI)  and with various other stakeholders- government departments such as police , DWCD,  Education, Health, social Welfare, Railways and other NGOs to provide justiice to children in distress. ChildLine also gets involved in rescuing children from various working situations, from railway stations , bus stands and those who are begging in streets.

Children’s Libraries

Chagaletti Rural children’s library which continues to work with the local children and schools, has widened its reach. In its 9th year with the Pratham organisation a new initiative has been taken up to raise donations in the form of ‘donate-a-book’. The idea is to start another set of 10 libraries in the near future.

Along with encouraging the children to read books, public speaking, painting and craft classes have been introduced during the reporting period.

Children’s Museum Project

With the initial support from a donor with both: her own family collection of artifacts, and financial support, a Children’s Museum was inaugurated in the current year. The museum is housed at SPARSHA, an NGO (Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru) with a child care institution. We thank Ms. Kalpana for the design for the layout and display of the material. Thanks to the children of SPARSHA who have enthusiastically taken on the role of curators!