Platforms

CRACR&PD is a trust registered under the Indian Trust Act, 1882, registered on the 07th of May,2019, and is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of Mr. Shashank Shekhar, and Mr. Raj Kumar Dubey. We are registered under sections 12A and 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961, registered on the NITI Aayog portal ‘Darpan’, and also registered with The Ministry of Corporate Affairs for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.

The Principal Objective of CRACR&PD is to create a forum for the promotion, realization, and monitoring of Child Human Rights and that of Persons with Disability. The CRACR&PD strives for protecting, serving, and reintegrating children & persons with disability by safeguarding their human rights through social, legal, political, and other interventions, ensuring that even the invisible children and persons with disability are safe from all forms of abuse, exploitation, discrimination and legal, social and political deprivation. We at CRACR&PD believe in creating a holistic child human rights environment, especially for Invisible Children and also that of persons with disability. Our interventions are inclusive of gender, queer identities, individuals and children with disability, Children in distress including children in need of care and protection, Children into bonded labour and Children of bonded labour, Children in conflict with the law as well as invisible children (this concept, proposed by CRACR&PD, is elaborated further), hereinafter, referred to as ‘Target Group’.

Invisible children according to us are those children who exist but are not on the radar of the government, stakeholders, and policy-makers. They include but are not restricted to, children of brick-kiln workers, construction workers, special needs children, children in the commercial sex trade, third gender, and transgender children, physically and intellectually challenged children, children into commercial sex as customary practices, children of migrant workers and victims of child marriage. They also include children from marginalized communities such as Musahar, Nats, Valmiki and Puroik, various tribes, and others. These children need sustained, multi-faceted, planned, and focused interventions by governmental agencies and civil society. It is imperative to help them to rise out of their current status rooted in inter generational deprivation, abuse, and discrimination. It will not be sufficient to call these children “Child in Need of Care and Protection” as provided under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

As such present, but not on the radar of the Government, Stakeholders, and Policy – CRACR AND PD have developed various platforms to provide logistic and other support to various projects launched by us to alleviate the challenges related to violation of the Human rights of Children and Persons with disability. Each platform will cater to various projects, as elucidated, but not restricted to the given elucidation.