ECHO

Aim To protect and advocate the human rights of children and to empower them with dignity

ECHO...
	is listed under the category Child Development/Organisations
	was established in 2000
	focuses on street and working children, child labour, child rights, , bonded labour, juvenile justice, children in remand homes
	functions at the Local, Urban, Rural level
	works with boys, 6-20 years; street children, children in observation homes, bonded child labour.
	welcomes help in the form of volunteers, books, clothes, toys, medicines, donations

ECHO (Empowerment of Children and Human Rights Organization) concentrates on securing the human rights of street and working children and those in conflict with the law. It works with the government at the observation homes visiting the boys home thrice a week and the girls home twice a week. During these visits it provides counselling, undertakes legal proceedings such as bail or release, conducts home visits and rehabilitates the children. It is also a member of the Home Committee, helping to trace the addresses of the children and sending them home. It provides free legal aid and counselling at the Central Jail for children imprisoned there. It also conducts awareness programmes and works towards organizing street children and rag-pickers by meeting with them twice a week at the railway station and the slums of Fraser Town, KR Puram, Majestic and D.J. Halli. During these programmes they check if there have been any human rights violations. ECHO also runs a transitional home for 25 boys. Those children from the remand home who dont go home are brought here and put through a reformative programme such as Traffic Policeman Assistants Programme (TPAP), ITI training and school education. In Hoskote taluk, ECHO works in 80 villages freeing bonded child labourers.

Fr Adv Antony Sebastian, Executive Director
Available - MonSat 9.005.00
Convent Road, St. Thomas Town P.O., Kammanahalli, , Bangalore - 560084.
Ph 25423582 , Email akoottu@eth.net , Website www.echoindia.org