How This Mumbai-Based NGO Is Protecting Children From Sex Offenders

Mumbai: Sex education is a near alien concept in India and sex education being imparted to 10 year olds - all the more unheard of. But Arpan, a Mumbai-based NGO is now changing this notion. In a bid to empower children, the organisation has designed a curriculum to teach children how to protect themselves from sexual predators.

"Initially there's a lot of discomfort when we introduce the class to topics like private parts, good touch-bad touch. But over a period of time that changes, they learn to accept their bodies and know what's acceptable and what's not," said Rehea Quadros, a programme coordinator at Arpan.

According to Government figures, 53 per cent of children in India are abused and in half the cases, the abusers are known to the child. With child sexual abuse this rampant, programmes like these are a dire necessity.
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