annual report · children reached through family work with 44,372 families 61,943 children reached...

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ANNUAL REPORT

The Aangan Trust l [email protected] l www.aanganindia.org lRegistered non-profit under the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950# E-18965, 80G and FCRA certified #08378109

Vision & Mission

VISIONTo make child protection everyone’s business, so that

every child is safe everywhere, everyday.

MISSIONWe build and strengthen child protection systems

to ensure that the most vulnerable children, are

safe, supported, in school and assured of a

childhood free from trafficking, child marriage,

hazardous work, violence and exploitation.


Patna

Gaya

Pakur

North 24 Parganas

Varanasi

Bharatpur

Mumbai

2,65,487In 2018, Aangan impacted

vulnerable children across 7 districts in India

In 2018Aangan trained

6,927community

women volunteerswho jointly

worked with

44,372families

in order to

2,419officials

and

keepchildren

safe


1,25,871Children reached through jointactions taken by officials and

community women volunteers 77,673Children reached through family

work with 44,372 families

61,943Children reached through

Safety Groups

964Children engaged in

hazardous work in home-based workshops / powerlooms / domestic

work, construction work, etc. were removed from labour or their working

hours reduced.They were then enrolled

in remedial sessions, informal education, bridge courses, etc.

29Survivors of trafficking and

sexual abuse were supported towards reintergration

436Children whose

families had fixed or planned marriages were identified and

marriages stopped / delayed through

negotiation

3,716Unsupervised children

at risk of trafficking, kidnapping, running

away, and abuse were enrolled in schools /

aanganwadis


Girls with whom we work with are now able to take part in household decision-making process, indicating improved agency and confidence:

Regular safety sessions with the boys also led to changes in attitude about gender roles.

Girls now believe that they can bring about a positive change in their communities.

Girls who were part of the safety network made a safety plan for themselves by identifying safe and unsafe spaces and people, and came up with strategies to avert potentially harmful situations.

Aangan trained community women volunteers across 7 hotspot districts with high rates of child trafficking, child labor, child marriage or exploitation to bring about a positive change in their communities by:

36% (At the beginning of the year.)

(At the end of the year.)66%

Identifying risks faced by children

Working jointly with officials and other stakeholders

Capacitating fellow community women

Helping families take preventative action to keep their children safe

Community Safety G roups

were established where the families, women volunteers and officials worked jointly to keep the children safe from harm.

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in order to connect them to peer networks and keep them safe. They used Aangan’s SuperSMART Shakti curriculum to help girls understand the connection between empowerment, education, financial independence and keeping safe from harm like abuse, child marriage, exploitation, discrimmination, and isolation. The women volunteers also connected adolescent boys to peer networks by using Aangan’s Asli Champion curriculum to encourage boys to challenge societal norms regarding gender roles and masculinity and helping them understand early warning signs of harm.

Adolescent girls and boys were 4 times more likely to have taken an active step to avert harm to themselves or their peers this year. They achieved this by ensuring that they themselves or their peers continue education, prevent child marriage by negotiating with family, report child harm cases to a teacher or community woman volunteer, etc.

Because of the sessions, I can differentiate between safe and unsafe places. Now, I realize that some situations which I earlier used to perceive as commonplace are in fact unsafe

I don’t want to get married right now. I will study as much as I can and then I will work and support my parents on my own

61,943Children in community safety groups

6,927 women volunteers enrolled

Boys think hitting a girlfriend/ wife is justifiable in some situations

- 42%

-Sunita, a 14-year-old from Varanasi

-Chandni, a 13-year-old from Bihar

Boys think woman should tolerate violence if it means that it will keep her family together

- 11%


were made safe as the police increased patrolling.

35

Our women volunteers registered 44,372 families of the children in their community and worked actively to strengthen these families.Our work with families comprised of:

Led by the women volunteers, families shared hyper-local community data with officials at 659 locations. As a result:

18,756

15,094

565

2,088

1,864

7,217

Families linked to schemes/ servicesSuch as Awas Yojana, Skill Development programme, Jeevika Yojana, etc. in order to enhance their future economic security.

Children linked to schemes/ servicesSuch as Sukanya Samriddhi, Kishori Shakti, Kanya Uthan Yojana, Student scholarships, etc. as a step towards averting the risk of child marriage, dropping out of school etc.

Youth enrolled in Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PMKVY)To provide them skill training and make them industry-ready, which in turn helps them in securing a better livelihood.

Families opened bank accountsThereby introducing them to formal financial system, providing them access to affordable loans and promoting a habit of saving. This was done with an intent to avert multiple child harm risks that arise due to lack of access to financial resources.

Migrating families linked to safe migration practices921 community women volunteers conducted one-to-one safe migration planning.The women volunteers also involved community stakeholders such as the village Sarpanch, school principals, and local police officials in safe migration planning. The migrating families were made aware about the risks involved in case of labour migration, the relevant laws and policies for labour migrants, important documents to be carried while migrating, helpline number etc.

Families linked to Post Office savings schemesThereby reducing financial vulnerability.

unsafe locationsengaged children and parents on issues of child safety, working to address their concerns.

473school authorities

committed to preparing a list of migrating families to promote safe migration practices.

90Panchayat Heads


Girls are now confident in approaching police officials for support in unsafe situations.

Families now believe that police officials are cooperative and helpful rather than harboring fear or suspicion of them.

Parents now feel comfortable in approaching school authorities to discuss issues of their children’s safety.

Families are now confident that their child will be alert in the event of unexpected harm and can avert potential danger to himself or herself.

Families are confident about their ability to keep their child safe from all forms of harm, including trafficking, marriage, and labor.

Access to and awareness about officials improved this year. We saw that across our districts:

As a result of safety sessions with girls and boys, and the joint actions taken by families, women volunteers and officials:


Football Clubs Reclaimed Public SpacesPolice and women volunteers jointly created 21 football clubs for girls across 7 thanas in the state of Bihar to reclaim public spaces for children. With support from the Ward Member and Counsellor, 110 adolescent girls participated in this innovative strategy. These clubs acted as safe spaces for adolescent girls to meet, play and engage in a dialogue on early warning signs of harm, risks of child marriage and the importance of identifying trusted adults. Police officials facilitated these group discussions when the clubs were initially formed. These groups are now sustained by girls facilitating the group sessions themselves with support from women volunteers who keep regular track of these sessions and conversations among the girls.

Bihar

Patna

Our Help Desk Prevented Children Going MissingFrontline police officials and women volunteers came together to set up ‘Khoya Paya Help Desks’ and averted harm amongst 400 missing children through the 16 days of the Pitrapaksh festival. Regular announcements regarding the Help Desk and names of missing children were made throughout the day. Through such announcements and increased identification of children, 15 missing children cases were informally reported at these help desks every day. A total of 1000 ID cards were also issued to children in Bodhgaya, Vishnupad, Chandauti, and Civil Line area.

Prior to the Mela, police officials and women volunteers received training by Aangan staff on various child protection laws and responses in cases of child harm. Later, police officials and women volunteers in turn conducted an awareness campaign to highlight the risks of children going missing at the festival and about the process of reporting at help desks.

This case is an example of how early reporting leads to prevention.This was also replicated in Shahpur, Kadamkuwan, Danapur, and Digha.

Bihar

Gaya

Out-of-School children Re-enrolled in SchoolsWomen volunteers conducted remedial sessions to prepare students for age-appropriate schooling and re-enrolled 557 out-of-school children in schools in Pakur district, Jharkhand. Remedial sessions not only helped these children to return to studies, but it also reduced their working hours by 2 hours per week. Our volunteers had earlier identified 815 children who were out of school in Pakur and linked them to remedial classes. These children had dropped out of school mainly because they were either working in beedi rolling, brick kilns, agriculture and hotels or were migrating with family. Enrolment of 557 children out of the 815 identified child labourers was possible with regular sessions that involved persuasion and counselling of children and their families.

Jharkhand

Pakur

Migrating Families Tracked and SupportedAfter meeting with our women volunteers, Block Development Officers from two blocks in North 24 Parganas called for Panchayat-level meetings to discuss safe migration. Representatives across all the panchayats in the block participated and discussed the importance of maintaining a list of families at risk of unsafe migration, to track their status and ensure that they take steps to migrate safely. Aangan has trained 44 panchayats across the 8 blocks of North 24 Parganas, and the panchayats have committed to maintaining a list of migrating families using our migration kit, to ensure safer migration in the community.

West Bengal

N 24 Parganas

Removing Children from Labour with Relaxation SessionsCommunity women volunteers identified 42 children from Dashashwamedh in Varanasi who were engaged in child labour. Our women volunteers, through counselling and awareness sessions, enrolled them relaxation sessions to reduce their burden and decrease the number of hours they spent engaged in child labour. About 79% of these children are involved in begging, while 21% of the children work in selling diyas, garlands, etc. The children who beg for money either sit at the Ghats or collect money from tourists.

Uttar Pradesh

Varanasi

Officials Respond to Safety Concerns in SchoolsA boundary wall was constructed around Rajkiya Aadarsh Uchh Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Luhasi, Nadbai through advocacy and liasoning efforts by adolescent girls associated with Aangan’s Bharosa Program. In one of the School Safety sessions led by the Station House Officer (SHO) in the area, the students discussed challenges for girls’ safety in the area. Diksha, along with other girls during the interaction, raised the concern of lack of privacy and feeling unsafe due to lack of a boundary wall around the school. Girls shared that men from the community took advantage of this and often used school hand pump to bathe and wash clothes. This often put girls in the school at risk of abuse. In fact, there were many instances when these community men had misbehaved with the girls playing in the school grounds.

Girls from the school followed up with the SHO after the interaction, and due to their consistent efforts at persuasion, the SHO took the problem faced by the girls seriously. Consequently, he had a wall constructed around the school within a week, to improve the girls’ safety.

Bharatpur

Rajasthan


Sources of Funds

TOTAL RECEIPT13.8CR

ALLOCATION OF FUNDS

International Foundations (9.68CR) - 69.8%

Indian Foundations (2.79CR) - 20.1%

Corporates (1.36CR) - 9.8%

Individuals (0.04CR) - 0.3%

Adolescent and Child Safety Work - 57.7%

Training Community Volunteers - 18.9%

Capacity Building and Professional Developmentof Staff - 2.8%

Capital Cost - 0.6%

Administration - 1.1%

Knowledge & Data - 6.8%

System Strengthening - 12.1%


Balance Sheet

ExpenditureProgram ExpensesAdminstrative Expense

96,382,8331,156,32297,539,155

991


Income & Expenditure


Legal Compliance

Aangan Trust is a public charitable trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. Registration Number. E 18965, dated September 29, 2000.

Other registrations:• Registration Number. DIT(E)/MC/80G/3038/2009-10 dated April 1st 2009 - under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, validity - perpetual.

• Registration Number. INS 36954 dated April 1st 2002 - under section 12A of the Income Tax Act.

• Permanent Account Number (PAN) is AAATT5502G

• TAN Number is MUMT14911B

• NITI Adyog Unique ID number is MH/2016/0114196

• FCRA Registration Number. 083781091 dated 20th March 2007 - under section 6 (1) (a) of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976, which entitles the trust to get donations from foreign sources. FCRA registration has been renewed upto 31st October 2021.

Aangan operated Bank Accounts with HDFC Bank LTD., Sandoz House Branch Worli, Mumbai. The FCRA account is also with the same bank and branch.


Accounting Practices

Aangan uses accounting software Tally ERP 9 version 6.5.4 to maintain its

accounts. Aangan has a dedicated accountant maintaining accounts,

monitoring cash flows and supporting the budget process together

with the Trustees.

R.P. Shah and Co. (304 Tardeo AC Market, Tardeo, Mumbai 400 034) are our

statutory auditors. These external auditors conduct periodic audits to

authenticate that the financial statement present a true and fair view

of the operations.

Thank You

We have been incredibly fortunate to be able to count on the

financial and volunteer support of our funders and individuals who

have been extremely generous with both their time and resources.

VIP Industries Ltd

Astaguru com div of safeset A P Ltd

Excel Industries Ltd

Food Matters India Private Ltd

Nirlon Limited

Nirlon Foundation Trust

V V & Smt K V Mariwala Charity Trust

MHFC Limited

Givingrise

Tata Education & Development Trust

Laura Lee Stark

Padmini Mirchandani

Dhruvank M. Vaidya

Priyankaa Vir

Rahul Mehta

Srivats Srinivasan

K Ananthram

K Nagarajan


Donors & Supporters 2018-19

LGT Venture Philanthropy Foundation

Technova Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd

American Jewish World Service

Impact Foundation India

HDFC Bank Ltd

H T Parekh Foundation

DSP Investment Managers Pvt Ltd

The Ashmore Foundation

EPIC Foundation INC

Charities Aid Foundation India Oracle

The Freedom Fund Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Dasra Chintu Gudiya Foundation

Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives Private Limited

Eicher Goodearth Private Limited Siddhartha Lal Natasha Jamal

The Tides Foundation NoVo Foundation


Donors & Supporters 2018-19

Akanksha Kamath

Alisha Goriawala

Amrit Bardhan

Christina Turner

Deepshikha

Emma Moore

Heidi Volpe

Isha Gupta

Janhavi Shah

Jeena Billimoria

Megha Mehta

Michael Darter

Raveena Shahpuri

Bharti M Vyas

Swati Kathiwada

Trupti Daphtary

Dhruvi Acharya

Renuka Modi

Shalini Shah

Shikha Sethi

Sheree Gomes

Priyanka Kapadia

Priyanka Shivdasani

THE AANGAN TRUST101, First Floor, Arun Chambers,

Tardeo Road, Mumbai 400034

Tel: +91 (0)22 2352 5832

Email: [email protected]

THE AANGAN TRUST101, First Floor, Arun Chambers, Tardeo Road, Mumbai 400034

Tel: +91 (0)22 2352 5832

Email: [email protected]

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