Stories

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

Read stories from our work!

On the surface, Tarini’s family was like any other. Middle class working parents in a not so well-to-do locality in Delhi. But …

My journey so far has taught me that working for children’s rights is simply about ensuring, protecting and enabling the rights of children as given by the Indian Constitution, and I close this brief reflection with the hope for building a society that is truly child-friendly - where each child gets the opportunity to develop equitably, as is their right.

A lot of popular culture notions of resilience speak of it as “getting up and dusting oneself off after a fall.” In …

Life is a series of ups and downs, but sometimes when you are on this journey and very early on storm after …

From being a child forced to live on the streets to now claiming her space under the sun with confidence and hope, …

* CSJ protects the identity of children in the stories we share. Images that show faces are illustrative only and do not reflect individuals in the story.  Names and identifying factors mentioned in the stories have been changed.