CHILDLINE Se Dosti Week

CHILDLINE Se Dosti, (Friends for CHILDLINE) a week-long nationwide campaign aims at creating friends for CHILDLINE and is envisaged as warm and inviting initiatives to create awareness about the helpline - 1098. The event is celebrated all over the country with unmatched dynamism and enthusiasm. Reaching out to the old and young from all walks of life and bring together children with their protectors in the form of police officials, allied systems, educational institutions, the youth, working adults and many more. CHILDLINE Se Dosti is not just another campaign but a medium to strengthen the rights of children in India. 

Dosti week is synonymous with fun, excitement plus driving change at a local and national level and spreading knowledge about child rights and child protection. This week is loaded with numerous activities that CHILDLINE’s across cities and towns organize in their respective area. A myriad of programs are arranged during this period from signature campaign to rail yathras, from street play to rallies, from games for children to competitions for them and many more.

CHILDLINE Se Dosti week campaign of CHILDLINE Trivandrum was bagged with many of programmes from 7 to 14 November 2014. The programme was flagged off by Fr. Philip Parakatt, member, Child Rights Commission at Pallithura HSSS in the presence of Fr. Lenin, Director, TSSS, Mr Chandran, Sub Inspector of Police, Pallithura and the staff of CHILDLINE. We started with the signature campaign followed by outreach, and awareness of CHILDLINE and Child Rights class to both students and parents. At the same time, Fr. Thomas Anchukandam, the Provincial of Bangalore Province of Don Bosco inaugurated the Dosti week at Don Bosco Nivas, by tying the Dosti band on a street child rescued in the morning of the same day.   A drawing competition was conducted in a School at Kanjiramkulam. Two teams went on train awareness from Trivandrum to Varkala and Trivandrum to Parasala respectively. Exhibition at railway rescue booth - to encourage passengers to call 1098 if they saw a child in distress, was another attraction of the campaign. The rescue booth was colored with 10 different themes on child rights, paper cuttings on recent child issues, Dosti bands, Posters, placards etc. Number of people came forward and tied dosthi band and promised to be friends of CHILDLINE. DB Tech students came in and promised their support to the campaign.

CHILDLINE Se Dosti campaign involves citizens who wish to bring a positive change in the lives of millions of children and make them informed individuals. This annual campaign strives to enable people to become an important resource person in order to spread CHILDLINE’s message of promoting a child friendly society. It intends to influence and mobilize many people to think and act in favour of children to protect their rights and build a child friendly society.