Year: 2016

Mumbai: A Mumbai-based organisation, Arpan, works towards creating environments free of child sexual abuse (CSA). It holds child safety education, both for children and the adults around them, including teachers [...]

It is heartening that we, Sujoy [Ghosh, director] and I, could tell this story. Child sexual abuse is a reality. I’m glad we could handle the subject sensibly and sensitively. [...]

Arpan, a non-govermental organisation (NGO) working towards the cause of preventing child sexual abuse launched the Personal Safety Education (PSE) kit for Class I-VI, on Thursday, at YB Chavan Centre, [...]

Arpan, an NGO working to stop child sexual abuse, has developed a personal safety education kit for teachers in schools, institutions and communities. The free kit, for classes I-VI, was [...]

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recently launched a platform for children to report cases of sexual abuse. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act [...]

Child abuse is largely preventable. But the burden of prevention has rested for too long on our children’s tiny shoulders. Generations of Indian children have watched their parents remain silent [...]

India shelters 430 million children, approximately one in five children (individuals under age 18) in the world and the government assesses that 40 % of India’s children are susceptible to [...]

“Entrepreneurs have a mind-set that sees the possibilities rather than the problems created by change.” This quote beautifully describes the journey and conviction of Pooja Taparia, the founder of Arpan. Her [...]

According to government figures, 53% children in India are abused and in half the cases, the abusers are known to the child MUMBAI:  Sex education is a near alien concept in [...]