LOWERING COST PER CHILD,
INCREASING IMPACT PER CHILD
As we take the next steps in our organizational evolution, we hope to reach out to more children directly or through state machinery, add best practices to our work, and make a positive contribution towards the fight against child abuse.
Your donations in kind and financial support go a long way in helping Protsahan reach out to more vulnerable childhoods broken by abuse and violence, and putting them on a path of healing and empowerment.
Program Expenses
- Adolescent Girls’ Education Programme
- Adolescent Girls’ Health Programme
- Arts for Gender Justice & Healing
- National Child Protection Programme
- STEM Programme for Girls
SOURCES OF FUNDING
- Individual
- Corporates
- Institutions
Fund Utilization
Measuring Impact In The Life Of A Young Girl
Protsahan’s goal is to enable every child to thrive and not just survive, no matter what her background and socioeconomic circumstances happen to be. Our programs and interventions are designed with the theory that literacy alone leads nowhere, girls have to be able to bring transformational change in themselves and in their classroom, school, and community. Therefore, building an environment for holistic empowerment and instill leadership capabilities in girls is just as essential. For this, we measure impact as progress in five different aspects of a child’s growth –
- Academic Growth
- Increase in her Sense of Self Worth
- Increase in her Civic Agency & Leadership
- Building Resiliency
- Acquiring Key Life Skills
Direct Impact On At-Risk Children
An enabling environment that addresses the trauma of abuse for children requires an intersectional approach to Education, Healthcare, and Justice, and a participation of the key stakeholders. To implement this approach at the grassroots level, it becomes imperative to engage different stakeholder groups, and sensitize them towards bringing a Trauma Informed Compassionate Care Model for Classrooms.
Engaging Key Stakeholders
Child protection and prevention of abuse is a responsibility shared by everyone in society. Engaging key stakeholders in conversations that have a direct impact on adolescent children, thus, is imperative to creating a system of child protection in the country.
Protsahan constantly engages with members of the executive, judiciary, law enforcement, medical fraternity, and parents to ensure that the focus on child protection remains strong so that children have a safe environment to grow.
- Legal & Normative Frameworks: Protsahan engages with local, state, and central government to improve systems and policies at a macro-level to build institutional capacities at scale using research, advocacy and design from the insights gained at center of excellence direct work.
- Society/Communities: Using multimedia approaches of filmmaking, storytelling, community theater for change, sports, festivals etc. Protsahan engages the community on issues of gender (menstruation, financial independence of girls, gender violence.. etc.)
- Household/Family & Peer Environments: Protsahan works very closely with the mothers, caregivers and the men & boys in the community through counseling and home visits, slum panchayats, etc. to empower truly the agency of the girl in a sustained manner
- Individual: Protsahan works to create community girl champions at the center of excellence with adequate resources, knowledge, access to services, behaviours, attitudes and life skills to become the change agents. This is a deeply immersive intervention with depth of scale
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Protsahan In Media
A disturbing case from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh has raised many questions that have no easy answers. But running away from them, say therapists, is not the solution
Locked in, left out
Feb 18, 2024
Women who are incarcerated lack access to facilities for menstrual hygiene and sanitation, have their privacy compromised by CCTV surveillance and receive subpar nourishment. Tanisha Saxena writes about the need for reform in India’s correctional fac…
Female enrolment in higher education has increased by 32% since 2014-15.
The report is based on a survey of 34,745 people between the ages of 14 and 18 in both government and private institutes across 28 districts in 26 states.
Four-year data of dropout rates in class 10 shows a steady decrease. HT spoke to experts to understand why students fall out of the education system.
As the climate gets hotter in South Asia, more women living in low-income households are expected to experience domestic violence. A new study shows the problem will be most extreme in India.
Although the LGBTQ+ community is now more accepted among the urban elite’s social circles, not much has actually changed. Is the most recent attempt by NCERT to integrate transgender…
विशेषज्ञों के अनुसार, घटनाएं बढ़ी हैं, लेकिन दर्ज मामलों के बढ़ते आंकड़े लोगों में कानूनी जागरूकता के संकेत भी हैं। अभी भी काफी मामले दर्ज नहीं हो पाते हैं या पुलिस स्टेशन तक नहीं पहुंच पाते।
Forces For Good: Sonal Kapoor | Reader’s Digest
Feb 07, 2022
Boom | Explained: Schools Are Reopening, But Many Children Won’t Go Back
Feb 11, 2022
With schools shut intermittently for over two years, and parents unable to make ends meet, children will not be able to return to their classrooms.
Hindustan Times | Amid lockdown, digital divide left migrants’ kids out in the cold
Jan 20, 2022
In the fourth part of this series on how the pandemic affected schools and India’s children, HT looks at the effects of the migrant crisis.
The Times of India | Delhi: Poor wary of Covid-19 test as they fear loss of income
Jan 29, 2022
It took a vigorous awareness campaign before Protsahan was able to get over 70% of the slum dwellers in west Delhi to accept both doses of the Covid vaccine.
DW News | India: Coronavirus school closures remove safety net for poor children
Thousands of street children have been forced to go back to begging and working odd jobs as schools have been closed and poor families are forced to make ends meet.
The New Indian Express | Delhi NGO Protsahan India Foundation fights child abuse with the power of dialogue
Nov 20. 2021
Among the many ways that can help children identify abuse, it is importance for adults (related to or familiar with these kids) to approach them for healthy conversations.
Lingering effects of COVID-19 taking financial, emotional toll on India’s population | CBC News
Oct 01, 2021
With COVID-19 cases raging across India in the spring, Neeraj Jaiswal was desperate with worry for his wife as her breathing became more shallow and he wrangled for a New Delhi hospital bed equipped with a crucial oxygen cylinder.
How Covid Has Put Children At Risk Of Abuse, Labour, Marriage
Jun 14, 2021
India urgently needs a countrywide campaign against child labour and early marriage to protect its children from the economic and social consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns and loss of caregivers, say child welfare workers
Open Magazine | Loss and Longing
May 21, 2021
N THE NIGHT OF MAY 1ST, NEELU Chauhan, 40, all but fell at the feet of her mother-in-law, Dhanna Chauhan.
NPR | India’s COVID Orphans Face Trauma And Trafficking Risks
Jun 10, 2021
A 7-year-old boy lost both parents to COVID-19 and is alone in the family apartment, with no relatives to care for him.
Telegraph India | Not home, alone
May 30, 2021
The second Covid wave has triggered a troubling rash of orphans across the country — 577 in 55 days according to the ministry of women and child development.
The Week | Pandemic’s forgotten and forsaken children
Jun 20, 2021
Inside the long, narrow and serpentine lanes of a slum in New Delhi, 13-year-old Raveena Jankipura contemplates suicide.
France24 | In India, Covid-19 pandemic leaves countless orphaned children behind
Jun 01, 2021
India’s Covid-19 cases are falling, but the second wave has been devastating for the country and thousands are still dying every day from the disease.
RFI | India: alarming situation for Covid-19 orphans
May 25, 2021
With 300,000 official deaths already and undoubtedly much more in fact, India is now worried about the wave of orphans that the pandemic is leaving behind.
Dainik Jagran | Working On Mental Health Of Children During Covid-19 Pandemic
Jun 27, 2021
कोविड-19 के कारण अपने माता-पिता को हमेशा के लिए खो देने वाले बच्चों की मदद के लिए समाज के साथ-साथ केंद्र और राज्य सरकारें भी तत्पर हैं।
TOI | The Pandemic’s Silent Victims
Apr 29, 2021
NEW DELHI: Amid the raging second wave of Covid-19 in the city, many children who have lost their parents or whose single parent is in hospital have become the pandemic’s silent victims.
HT | Delhi’s Child Rights Body Reaches Out To Kids Who Lost Parents To Covid
Apr 29, 2021
Officials at DCPCR said that the commission is working with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to care for these children in terms of food, medical benefits
HT | Losing Parents To Covid, Many Children Stare At Uncertain Future
May 02, 2021
A significant proportion of people, who have died as the second Covid-19 wave has overwhelmed India’s health system, are in their 30s and 40s.
India Today | Covid Second Wave Leaves Children Orphaned And Vulnerable Across India
May 04, 2021
While some have lost both their parents, others are in a situation where a single surviving parent is unable to take care of them financially and psychologically.
Reuters | Pleas For Help In India As COVID Leaves Children Without Carers
May 06, 2021
When an Indian children’s rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with COVID-19 and unable to care for them
Independent | What Happens To Children Who Lose Their Parents To The Virus?
May 07, 2021
More than 230,000 people in India have now died with the coronavirus. These are not the only victims of the pandemic that is still devastating the country, however
The Wire | Pleas For Help In India As COVID Leaves Children Without Carers
May 07, 2021
When an Indian children’s rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with COVID-19 and unable to care for them
The Globe & Mail | Tide Of COVID Deaths In India Leaves Orphaned Children In Its Wake
May 11, 2021
Amid the tragic fallout of India’s severe second wave of COVID-19 that is claiming nearly 4,000 lives a day, young children who have lost one
New Statesman | “Total helplessness”: The Accountability Crisis Behind India’s Covid Surge
May 07, 2021
Oxygen shortages are pushing Indian hospitals to breaking point, and raising questions over the response of Narendra Modi’s government.
TOI | Loss Of Day’s Work, Fear Of Impotency: Why Men In Slums Are Hesitant To Take The C-jab
May 08, 2021
In the survey, conducted by NGO Protsahan India Foundation, which has been working in the slums of Dwarka, Uttam Nagar and Vikas Nagar, most residents also expressed distrust about the vaccines.
TOI | Vax Registration Still A Puzzle For Many
May 06, 2021
New Delhi: Ramesh Kumar has been providing his auto services to people coming out of the vaccine centre at Lajpat Nagar from Monday. But unlike those who are getting the Covid-19
Straits Times | As Parents Succumb To Covid In India, Children Are In Distress
May 09, 2021
BANGALORE – For an hour, Mr Preetham Rodrigues, 42, pondered over the text message he had seen in a WhatsApp group.
Straits times | Devastating Covid Crisis In India Leaves Children Stranded
May 06, 2021
BENGALURU (REUTERS) – When an Indian children’s rights group tracked down two boys, aged six and eight, after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with Covid-19
Boom Live | Covid-19 Is Leaving India’s Children Orphaned</strong
May 04, 2021
The pandemic is expected to disrupt many children’s lives. It also tells a story of India’s flawed adoption system.
Gulf News | Covid Orphans: The Story of India’s Invisible People
May 12, 2021
The poignant image of two young brothers- the elder one not even in his teens, lost amidst the pendulum of hope and grief in a hospital refuses to go away.
The Diplomat | What Will Happen To India’s Covid Orphans
May 10, 2021
With increasing COVID-19 deaths in India, hundreds of children are being traumatized and left in the lurch.
HT | In The Second Wave, How Children Are Suffering
May 17, 2021
What we need is for kinship care to kick in on an urgent basis. Institutional care and shelter homes should be the last resort. The grief and trauma will damage the children and they will grow up to be broken adults
Boom Live | Why Delhi’s Slum Dwellers Are Struggling To Get Vaccinated
May 17, 2021
As urban India queues up to get vaccinated, many don’t know how to get the vaccine. But there are ways to make the vaccine accessible.
Live Mint | The Children Left Behind By Covid
May 14, 2021
As our social media feeds remain flooded with posts related to ‘covid orphan’ and ‘call to adopt’, India really needs to wake up to how the young ones will deal with grief
France 24 | Pandemic Triggering Orphan Crisis In India
May 19, 2021
Three days after their father died of coronavirus, six-year-old twins Tripti and Pari were found sleeping next to their mother, unaware that she had also become a victim.
Sputnik | Covid Leaving Behind Generation Of Traumatized Orphans
May 19, 2021
In mid-April, when the number of coronavirus cases began escalating again in India, thousands of COVID patients lost their lives fighting the dearth of hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, and medications.
Amar Ujala | Many Children Have Lost Their Mother Or Father In The Pandemic
May 12, 2021
Orphanages in India have not received adequate support from the government regarding COVID-19 and the lockdown. This, along with severe resource constraints, puts the children they care for at greater risk.
Bloomberg | Covid Orphans at Risk of Exploitation in India
May 27, 2021
Government officials and NGOs are concerned, but worry that good Samaritans are playing into the hands of child traffickers.
BBC | The Indian Children Orphaned By Covid-19
June 01, 2021
Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother.
DW News | Indian Children Orphaned By The Pandemic
May 27, 2021
While children are unlikely to fall severely ill from the novel coronavirus, they’re fast becoming secondary victims of the virus in India.
Mumbai Tak | Child Abuse Has Increased During Covid
May 15, 2021
The second wave of corona is seen across the country due to corona destroying families. It is full of children and women.
Indian Express | Fix The Gaps In Covid Vaccine Rollout Strategy
June 02, 2021
The Cowin portal, mandatory to register for vaccines, has become a stumbling block for many, especially with vaccine supply being affected across India.
IndiaSpend | What Calls For Adopting ‘Covid Orphans’ Are Missing
June 04, 2021
Support to caregivers from extended family should be preferred for children whose parents have passed away due to Covid-19, not adoption by strangers or institutionalised care
BBC | Teaching slum girls to believe in themselves
June 17, 2016
BBC shares the incredible journeys of Protsahan’s girls and how they are taking their lives in to their own hands.
Deccan Chronicle | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable
Sep 04, 2020
Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made the situation worse
Innovation At The H.E.A.R.T of Education
Dec 23, 2020
Early this year, while we at Protsahan India Foundation were in the process of analyzing the body of work we had done over the past decade and preparing ourselves for the next decade, we received an email.
HuffPost | Giving hope to India’s children
March 13, 2014
HuffPost reports on the necessity and urgency of fighting Child Abuse in India and Protsahan’s role in securing a better childhood of India’s Children.
Indiatimes | Father’s Day: Father To 120 Girls
June 16, 2019
Indiatimes follows the journey of Jaswinder Singh from being a Director to being a father figure to the girls of Protsahan.
Hindustan Times | Child abuse: The birth of a damaged citizen
March 09, 2016
Hindustan Times reports on the heartbreaking reality in India of atrocities committed against children that are largely ignored.
The Hindu | Art: The way forward
October 08, 2013
The Hindu explores the relation between art and healing broken childhoods at Protsahan.
Age limit for going online? How threat to children can be tackled
March 15, 2018
The Times of India reports on the NASSCOM CSR Leadership Conclave held in New Delhi on March 14, 2018 where Protsahan’s founder Sonal Kapoor was on a panel to discuss “Keeping our Children Safe in the Digital Age”.
The Economic Times | Empowerment is synonymous with education
October 2, 2011
The Economic Times reports on Protsahan’s one-year anniversary, and our on-ground impact of working with children in underserved communities.
The Tribune | Breaking the Silence
November 06, 2016
The Tribune covers Protsahan’s protest against Child Sexual Abuse and how POCSO is applied on the grass roots.
The Better India | Changing lives of 400 Girls in Delhi Slums with Art & Colour
July 23, 2015
The Better India explores Protsahan’s story; how it started and where it has reached.
BMGF | Impatient Optimists: How one 24-year-old is saving the lives of girls in Delhi
June 03, 2013
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation writes about Protsahan’s journey.
Ashoka India | Reviving art at Protsahan: Encouraging creativity & design thinking to solve India’s most pressing problems
June, 2013
Our founder, Sonal Kapoor, shares her views on creativity and design thinking on Ashoka (India) blog.
Doordarshan | Tejasvini: Interaction with Sonal Kapoor, Founder of Protsahan
December 20, 2015
India’s National broadcaster Doordarshan interacts with Protsahan’s founder Sonal Kapoor.
92.7 Big FM | Big Heroes with Richa Anirudh
October 11, 2016
Richa Anirudh interacts with Protsahan’s founder Sonal Kapoor on 92.7 Big FM radio.
TedX Youth | Becoming a Social Entrepreneur
December 10, 2012
Sonal Kapoor is the Founder CEO of PROTSAHAN India and is considered one of the most inspiring young social entrepreneurs of our time.
Blogs | Personal agency of a child vs. Imposed religious practices
February 14, 2018
Child rights activists start picking up as we scaled up the momentum on Twitter, highlighting the need for immediate intervention.
Indiatimes | The Ugly Truth Of Kerala’s Temple Ritual Of Symbolic Human Sacrifice – ‘Chooral Muriyal’
February 21, 2018
Wide scale coverage of the issue started to gain momentum as more people became aware of the horrors of the ritual.
Indian Express | Chooral Muriyal: Why ritual involving young boys at this Kerala temple is making news
February 16, 2018
Indian Express covers the story after it breaks in Deccan Chronicle.
Youth Ki Awaaz | Chooral Muriyal: What A Sick Temple ‘Ritual’ Is Doing To Young Boys In Kerala
February 21, 2018
Youth Ki Awaaz does a story highlighting the issue that is a clear violation of child rights.
MORE MEDIA STORIES
Female enrolment in higher education has increased by 32% since 2014-15.
The report is based on a survey of 34,745 people between the ages of 14 and 18 in both government and private institutes across 28 districts in 26 states.
Four-year data of dropout rates in class 10 shows a steady decrease. HT spoke to experts to understand why students fall out of the education system.