GoodWeave distributes food packets to hundreds of people as part of CLFJ emergency relief efforts.

The Jaipur Child Welfare Committee, Rajasthan Dept. of Child Rights and Bihar authorities working together in a coordinated effort to get children back to their families.

This webinar featured the voices of former child labourers and their families talking about the challenges of COVID-19, with child rights experts weighing in on the issue.

Approximately 1300 people were provided food aid through Round 1 of CLFJ emergency relief efforts, with many more to be assisted in Round 2.

Tens of thousands of masks were made for free distribution in Jaipur neighbourhoods, as part of COVID-19 emergency relief work.

Women complete an order for bathroom slippers while a skills assessment is being conducted.

A closed group police training in North Jaipur to support the strengthening of FIR content in child labour cases.

CLFJ partner SEWA Bharat organizes an event where Deputy Director and Assistant Director from the District Industries Centre at the Rajasthan Dept. of Industries visit community women in the Bhatta Basti neighbourhood to explain government schemes and facilitate support for bank loans.

These counsellors will be on-call and ready to provide on-site trauma counselling right after children are rescued and taken to the child-friendly room at the police station, as well as support longer-term counselling needs.

CWC members and Assistant Director General of Police Ravi Prakash (AHTU) were present. All the children completed their court statements and obtained their documentation to share with Bihar officials, before departing.

CLFJ partner SEWA Bharat assists neighbourhood women with applying for government-issued artisan cards, to support their businesses.

Attendees also includedDept. of Women and Child Development Ms.Preeti Mathur, Director, and Mr.Kailash Sharma, Asst. Director.

CLFJ partners come together to share their successes and challenges, exchange information, and strengthen collaboration across all CLFJ program components.

Inaugurated by the Labour Minister Mr. Tikka Ram ji.

A safe and welcoming place for children to be brought right after rescue. An important interim step to a longer term plan to not have to take children to police stations at all after rescue.

GoodWeave India embarks on a multi-pronged campaign to raise awareness about child labour free products.

Student named Priyansh won the first prize from Maheshwari Public School.

40 members fromNorth Jaipur District schools were there for sensitization regarding child labourers.

Through a network of 40 CLFJ field workers, all child labourers rescued from Jaipur and returned to Bihar get regular support and follow-up visits to reduce the risk of re-trafficking.

This street play educates the audience about the plight of child labourers and why they should be in school and not work. It was performed in more than 120 neighbourhoods in Jaipur.

CLFJ staff work closely with the Bihar government to support their follow-up with rescued children returned home.

Part of GoodWeave India’s initiatives to raise awareness about child labour is by engaging children in schools.

With the support of the Rajasthan Dept. of Labour, CLFJ trains labour inspectors on their roles and responsibilities in relation to workshops with child labour.

86% of judges hearing child labour cases attended the consultation and discussed ideas on how to make prosecuting child traffickers a top priority.

The head of the largest export association in Jaipur, and organiser of this fair, is a strong supporter of CLFJ.

As of January 2020, over 700 worksites were being monitored by GoodWeave to ensure child labour free production.

Special Guest: Mr. Abdul Razzak Bhati, State President, All India Unorganised Workers Congress of Rajasthan State Congress Committee.

These children were excited to finally be heading home.

Police, as first responders, need important sensitisation training on the plight of trafficked children and the threats they face by their traffickers when they return home to Bihar.

Visitors were Mr. Rahul Duggal and Ms. Simran Duggal from Aravali exports, Mr.Vishal Choudhury from Parampara, and Ms. Ketaki Joshi and Ms. Shweta from Rangotri.

Justice Sandeep Mehta and UNICEF representative interacted with rescued child labourersto understand the severity of the issue. He assured he would take proper action against employers.

The Rajasthan government has made a strong commitment, at the highest levels, to combatting the issue of child labour.

Raising awareness about CLFJ and the drive to change business systems, among key business stakeholders.

Documentation will be entered into the Bihar Child Labour Tracking system

British Asian Trust is a strong collaborator and supporter of CLFJ and provides strategic direction to the program.

With CLFJ support, all 132 children went back with the necessary documentation to apply for government benefits

GoodWeave does a lot of education and awareness raising among its licensees and within the communities where they are present.

Ben Stokes visits CLFJ partner, Taabar shelter home, and watches the CLFJ street play performed at a school, as part of the community outreach work.

Without the substantial support of CIFF, the successes of CLFJ would not have been possible.

CCP training of railway police officers, child welfare police, and child care institutions, in coordination with Dept. for Child Rights to discuss better rescues, prosecutions and care of children

The McCain Institute in the United States has a strong focus on human trafficking.

LEDS holding Right to Information Act camps for children in Bhatta Basti neighbourhood to get free admission in private school

CLFJ sponsored a panel of child rights experts at the 2019 Jaipur Literature Festival, which was covered widely in the media.

CLFJ NGO partners and Child Welfare Committee members speak with Collector and District Magistrate, Jaipur Mr. Jagroop Singh Yadav at the Jaipur Railway Station, at the send off of 138 rescued child labourers back to their home state of Bihar.

CLFJ had its public launch event, with the Jaipur District Magistrate as the Chief Guest, and a strong showing from the Rajasthan government and Jaipur business leaders.

Official inauguration of the CLFJ mobile van by Additional Labour Commissioner Mr. C.B.S. Rathore. CLFJ public launch event.

Press event about CLFJ public launch, during which two former child labourers shared their perspective.

CLFJ signage canvassing the city on bus shelters, billboards and airport signs.

Dr. Varsha Joshi from Childline and CLFJ partners meet with the new Chief Minister of Rajasthan to share information about the Child Labour Free Jaipur Initiative. From Childline and CLFJ partners

CLFJ partner provides hands-on, practical training to support police officers to write thorough “first information reports,” a critical piece of documentation needed to build a strong case against the traffickers.

Meeting of government officials, business champions of Child Labour Free Jaipur partners and researchers to discuss the findings of the recently released report on Business Supply Chains research in Jaipur.

The Child Welfare Committees of Rajasthan and 11 districts in Bihar hold up the outcomes from their meeting where they collectively came up with solutions and signed declarations of commitment to operationalize the solutions.

Members of the Child Welfare Committee in Jaipur travel to Bihar to visit a village in Gaya district, to better understand the source areas where are children are trafficked from.

Jaipur district level officials meeting to discuss the child labour task force and increasing rescues of children trafficked to workshops in Jaipur.

300 people attending a community meeting organized by Initiative partner LEDS, at Madina Masjid, in the Shastri Nagar neighbourhood of Jaipur.

Initiative partner, Labour Education and Development Society (LEDS), facilitated an Independence Day celebration in the Bhatti Basti neighbourhood of Jaipur.