Every child deserves to feel safe — and to be heard.
Bal Suraksha works to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation, to give them the language and courage to speak, and to build families, schools and communities that listen, believe and act.
Most abuse hides in silence and familiarity. We break that silence — gently and safely — with age-appropriate education, aware adults, and clear paths to help and justice.
— Mahabharata
Silence is the danger
Sources: NCRB Crime in India 2024 and POCSO case data. National child helpline: CHILDLINE 1098.
Four ways this mission keeps children safe
Practical, age-appropriate and dignity-first — built to protect, not to frighten.
1 · Safe-Touch Education
Age-appropriate workshops that teach children about safe and unsafe touch, body safety and how to say “no” and tell a trusted adult — delivered in schools and communities.
2 · Break the Silence
Awareness for parents, teachers and communities to recognise warning signs, listen without judgement, believe children, and respond calmly and correctly.
3 · Helpline & Support
Connecting children and families to CHILDLINE (1098), counselling and legal aid — so that reporting leads to real protection, care and healing.
4 · POCSO & Safe Schools
Educating on child rights and the POCSO Act, and helping schools adopt child-protection policies, safe-reporting systems and trained staff.
How we turn a story into change
Listen
To survivors, safely and with care.
Understand
Where abuse hides and why.
Research
Reporting barriers & prevention.
Act
Education, helplines, safe schools.
Change
Children who speak, adults who listen.
Deliver safe-touch education to 100,000 children.
We report our progress openly — because a child's safety is never a private metric.
See the Impact DashboardBal Suraksha — 2026 target
48%Children reached with safe-touch education.
Child-safe schools
38%Progress toward 500 schools with child-protection policies.
The research behind this mission
We ground our work in credible, published evidence. Explore key national studies and reports on this issue.
Child Labour and Schooling in India
UNICEF Innocenti · 2024
National evidence on the link between child labour and children out of school.
Read the reportFact Sheet: Child Labour in India
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Official statistics and definitions on the scale of child labour in India.
Read the reportReports open in a new tab. We cite these sources for public awareness and do not claim authorship.
Current government schemes for this cause
National programmes working on this issue. We align our grassroots work with these initiatives — and help people access them.
Mission Vatsalya
Ministry of Women & Child Development
Child protection & welfare — CHILDLINE 1098, foster care, sponsorship, adoption.
Official websitePENCIL Portal
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Platform for effective enforcement against child labour and rescue-rehabilitation.
Official websiteOfficial government portals — open in a new tab. Vedanvesha Sansthan is an independent organisation and is not affiliated with these schemes.
अहिंसा परमो धर्मः।
Ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ
“Non-harm — protecting the innocent — is the highest dharma.”
— Mahabharata