This is Pratibha’s story. I met her for the very first time during my awareness activity as an NSS volunteer. She was a 12-year-old, bright, and happy girl who wanted to be a teacher. I remember she participated in the competition my team had organized at the government school located in their community. She gave a speech about the fierce warrior Rani Lakshmibai and won first prize in the competition.
The next year when I visited the school again I was shocked to learn that she discontinued her studies. Her family made her work as a household help so that she could help with the family expenses and after that, her family arranged for her to marry at the mere age of 16 years. That’s when I decided to start a movement to protect children like Pratibha.
Pratibha Foundation is not only an organisation but a mission to protect the rights of every child.
Richa Mehta
– Founder (Pratibha Foundation)
We want to build a world where no children should deprive of their rights.
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We are a Gujarat-based nonprofit working towards building an equal, inclusive, and self-dependent society that safeguards the rights of children. We are working in more than 35 villages in India and impacting more than 35,000 lives through our various grassroots-level programs.