• On children’s question of drop out situation in the school, the concerned teacher agreed to submit the details in the next CRC meeting. • On request by CRC members, SDMC and Panchayat
• 3 drop outs admitted by CRC children are being followed up by the children themselves. • A HM (from Bellary) gave a list of 20 school drop outs, lamenting his inability to bring them back to schools
members act to level a pond near the school that was
and requested CREAM team to help. CRC members took
filled with dirty water, breeding mosquitoes.
up this issue and the said 20 children are back in school.
• Children solved the issue of drinking water facility by writing petition to the Panchayat from the Child Rights Club. • 59 dropouts are readmitted into schools by the CRC members (staff facilitation in some and school teachers’ in others). • 3550 calls from children on 1098; 28 cases registered by children on childline. • CRC children in Bangalore intervened in the case of 3 drop out children from hostel. • CRC children have gathered information on 4 child marriages, of which 2 were stopped and 2 child labourers; interventions under planning. 1 engagement was stopped with information from children on 1098. 2 more child marriages stopped by CRC members (with the help of SHG women). • By the intervention of Child Rights Clubs, the School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC) meetings are regularized.
Task Forces: • One gram Panchayat (local government) has displayed the list of task force members on its notice board. • 404 children rescued by task force members in railway station and bus stand, 12 admitted to a shelter home. • Members facilitated the admission of an abandoned child at the transit home. • Gram Panchayat members from a village in Mysore have agreed to listen to children’s opinions during meetings. • 55 cases referred by police personnel. 17 unaccompanied children reported by Railway Police Force. • 3 dropouts were readmitted after the intervention of headmaster himself with the SA (home visits) • Panchayat members shared details of 50 school dropouts.
• Children had informed about child labour in rag picking,
• SHG members being active in reporting cases of school
garages, etc – a list of 33 children was prepared and
drop outs and enquiring more about child marriages
sent to CWC, but only 6 could be rescued during the raid
(legal aspects); promise to promptly report cases of
in December 2013.
child rights violation.
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