Child Sexual Abuse
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Child Sexual Abuse
Awareness and Education for Prevention and Protection
Ground Reality :
Statistics reveals that nearly 53% of children in our country are victims of sexual abuse, but speaking about it is considered taboo in our society. Worse, only very few NGOs and a few other entities are working on this issue.
According to the World Health Organization, child sexual abuse is the involvement of a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or that violates the laws or social taboos of society. It is important at this stage, to separate the broader issue of child abuse from the specific one of child sexual abuse.
Child abuse may be emotional, mental, physical or sexual and encompasses a much wider gamut of actions. Child sexual abuse is that which targets sexuality and/or sexual organs, involves sexual gestures, words, Pictures actions. In India, Child rights activists argue that the problem may not be the child’s inability to speak about sensitive subjects, as much as the lack of skills on the part of the questioners to create the environment and the trust required to enable the child to share his/her experiences.
In majority of cases, the offenders are known to the victims. There are many cases where the family, despite knowing about the cases, forced under circumstances not to report them.
Goal:
To Increase awareness on Child Sexual abuse among children in the age group between 6 to 18 years.
Mission:
Promote Protection and Prevention on Child Sexual Abuse programme among 4000 children in the age group between 6 to 18 years.
Why NSVK:
Experienced team members with 11 years experience on children safety and security.
Handled central govt programme, Child line 1098 since 2012. No of cases handled by NSVK - till date 5917 from 2012 till date.
Support extended to children for shelter, nutrition, medical treatment.
Cases of child labour, missing child, begging etc were handled.
Handled 125 Child Sexual Abuse cases. Among them 120 FIR were lodged and till date, 15-abuser got punishment in child sexual abuse cases.
During Covid, took action against 10 cases of child marriages in the city of Mumbai.
3 years glimpse… a insight of our approach:
- Programme Objective
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- 50 schools comprising around 3000 children will be covered through the awareness sessions.
- 1000 children will be covered through awareness programme in a community.
- Awareness will be created amongst 4000 parents through knowledge sharing on CSA.
- Establishing linkages between organization and government department.
- Support for intervention in identified cases.
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- Process
- School Sensitization: Identify the school and sensitize the teachers, staff and children regarding this issue.
- TOT (Training of Teachers): Training of two teachers about POCSO act.
- Student Awareness: Arrange session for the students, identify cases amongst students, counselling of students and parents as per need, support for the intervention as per the case needs/requirement.
- Community Awareness: Conduct the session in community with children’s and parents.
- Expected Result
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- Increase awareness about CSA, POCSO act, allied system - among children, teachers and parents and spread the knowledge to others through them.
- Society would be sensitized in context to child related issue(s).
- Children can register their complaints at CHILDLINE on 1098 or build confidence to express about it to their parents, teachers or trustworthy person.
- Encourage children to speak about sexual abuse.
- Children will gain knowledge about abuse(s).
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- Sustainability
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The child will learn -
- About abuse.
- How to approach for help.
- Whom to approach with reference to the abuse.
- Abuse is not a social stigma for the child & how to prevent abuse.
- The counselling component will help the children and parents to deal with the situation or file the case in police station.
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