United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) incorporates basic rights and principles of participation under articles 12, 13, and 15 for children to counter non-participation and engage them individual and communal growth. Child parliament is a platform for children between 6 to 18 years of age to learn about and experience their rights as outlined in UNCRC. Caritas India under the Swaraksha Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) Program is

Like many people in Nagaland’s rural community, Kukis seemed to be facing food and livelihood insecurity. Located in the Peren district of Nagaland with Almost 93 households, the people were engaged in agricultural activities especially the shifting cultivation of rice, maize, yam, tapioca, pumpkin, chilli, ginger, beans tomatoes etc. Increasingly erratic climate change, age-old farming traditions, low productivity, and farming practices were creating

“Children of the migrants are anaemic and need nutrition support,” informed the doctor to the PRAVASIBANDHU-Safe Migration Programme staff after the medical camp organized on June 10, 2021, at Ernakulam District of Kerala. Almost 30 children were identified as anaemic during the medical camp organized by the Caritas India 'Pravasi Bandhu' Programme with the support of the National Health Mission (NHM) and Kerala State Aids Control Society (KSACS).

All that was left of Banalata Kuity, 58, mud house, are a fallen wall buried under the mud that once formed the foundation of her house. Household articles were scattered in the slush of mud. Everything was destroyed which they have gathered with great difficulties. The cyclone Yaas which made its landfall in the west of Balasore, Odisha at 8:30 a.m. on 26th May 2021 has reached South 24 Pargana, West Bengal by 12:30 with heavy tidal waves. The post-cyclone

Thousands of covid medical kits are set to be available with the parish volunteer for the people with covid symptoms in Kerala. Caritas India in association with Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) and Kerala Social Service Forum (KSSF) is reaching out to 32 Diocesan Social Service Society partners with the support of Covid medical kits. Covid medical kits of Caritas India will reach out to 3250 families in Kerala with a medical kit consists of

Odisha Chapter of the BMZ Global Program India was launched by Mr Gyan Ranjan Das, District Collector of Bhadrak District of Odisha on 30th June 2021. The event was organized in the presence of Mr Arun Mohapatra, ADM-Emergency, Ms. Manorama Jally, Deputy Collector-Emergency Officer, Fr. Lijo, Director of BSSS, Staff of Caritas India, and local partner, Balasore Social Service Society (BSSS). During the inaugural session Mr. Chanrda Shekhar Panda,

Millions of people need humanitarian support today, and this number will increase due to the impact of Covid-19 in our lives. The secondary effects of the pandemic were particularly grievous in humanitarian settings, and they were, unfortunately, made worse by the same travel and movement restrictions aimed at containing the pandemic. Disruptions to supply chains, movement restrictions through border closures and lockdowns, and market volatility