Meet the Changemaker

Aangan is a child protection organization that promotes safe communities for children with a focus on children in dangerous or difficult situations and environments.These are children imperiled by their exposure or vulnerability to isolation, neglect, violence, hazardous or exploitative work, early marriage, juvenile offending, trafficking and abuse

Achievements:

• During the year 2013-14, Aangan impacted 57680 most vulnerable children in dangerous situations: abandoned, runaways, at-risk or rescued from trafficking, hazardous work, child marriage, violence or abuse through through monitoring government rescue homes/shelter homes/observation children’s homes/ or training staff
• 5768 staff officials as well frontline workers were trained by Aangan on standards of care in homes
• Opened up 260 homes to ensure more partners were permitted into homes which lacked services and monitoring impacting 2700 children 

Meet the Leader

In 2002 Suparna founded Aangan, with the commitment to protecting the most excluded, isolated, vulnerable groups of children. In 2006, she developed a unique model to partner with state governments across the country making Aangan the first non-profit to access hundreds of state-run institutional facilities for rescued, trafficked and other vulnerable children all over India.

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Making news

• Why Child Protection is a shared responsibility .DNAIndia, July, 2015
  
• The danger of treating children as adults. NDTV, April, 2015
• Non-profit wins $300,000 Google prize to make India's first open-defecation free city
  thestar.com; January, 2014
  

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Stories of Change

When 9-year-old Nisha was found wandering in Koniya, Shakti activator Varsha realised she was vulnerable to being trafficked and ensured that she was sent to a safe shelter home

REad about Aangan's impact