The Alok Institute is a partner of the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, accompanying and learning from the implementation of the Friendly Villages for Children program, which directly serves 20 communities, reaching 2,500 children, and also trains agents of the official protection, welfare, and justice system in another 110 villages.
Child labor, child trafficking, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse, early marriage: these are crimes against children that affect the soul of humanity.
Fotos: Mila Petrillo
The foundation created by Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize winner) mobilizes youth and families, governments, and the justice system to ensure children’s right to be heard, to education, health, play, and social protection.
Part of the strategy is the Children’s Parliament: they participate in community decisions, raise awareness among other young people and families, and put pressure on authorities (see video). There is great encouragement for the empowerment of girls and an important mobilization campaign against early marriage involving the 300 villages where KSCF operates (see video).
As the leader of the historic Global March Against Child Labor (1998), Kailash Satyarthi created his foundation in 2004. Since then, working in 850 villages with the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation:
– Provided opportunities for leadership to 20,000 young people
– Rescued more than 12,000 children from child labor
– Enrolled more than 90,000 in school
– Refurbished 800 schools
– Prevented about 400 early marriages
– Changed the lives of 350,000 people.
Fotos: Mila Petrillo
About the KSCF:
On Kailash Satyarthi’s journey, the first child rescued from slave labor was 42 years ago. The creation of the K.S. Children’s Foundation (KSCF) occurred in 2004. We recommend watching the excellent documentary “The Price of Free” on YouTube about this journey.
The institution works to achieve a world where all children are free, safe, healthy, receive quality education, and have the opportunity to realize their potential. The various initiatives aim to foster collaboration among governments, companies, communities, and other partners to ensure the effective implementation of national and international laws related to children, but youth leadership is at the center of all actions.
“We must not lose our way to compassion”
Journalist Devam Bhaskar, director of the Alok Institute, interviews the Indian activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kailash Satyarthi. The interview was published in the Correio Braziliense.
