Childline

The penetrative reach that the human trafficking nexus has made into even the grass-root sections of the country is quite disparaging.

The work of the volunteers begins right from identifying a runaway on the railway platform to safely handing them over to parents.

An 8-year-old girl went missing from her home in Chandrapur, Maharashtra in the year 1995. Thanks to the efforts of Chandrapur Police, she was finally reunited last month with her family after two long decades.

More than one lakh children go missing in our country every year. Most of them are never found again by their families and vanish into the unknown. Vansh could have been one such child had not an NGO called Drishti, 1,500 km away from his home, found his father with the help of some good people in Sikkim and the Station House Officer in Modinagar.

'Komal', an animation film released by Childline India, recently won the National Award, 2015 for the Best Educational Film. It approaches the sensitive topic of child sexual abuse in a very simple and interactive manner and informs children what they should do to protect themselves in the face of abuse. Watch it here.