Student Police Cadets of Vithura school in Kerala capital pilots global campaign against child marriage, trafficking
The Hindu
The ‘Zero tolerance to child marriage’ campaign is being piloted in India and Ghana in Africa. In India, it is being implemented in the Kerala first
The Student Police Cadets (SPC) of Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Vithura, have come together to pilot an international campaign against child marriage and child trafficking.
It is estimated that there were 82 child marriages during the lockdown alone in the State. The Vithura school’s SPC unit is rolling out the three-month campaign as part of an international initiative supported by Mission Better Tomorrow, a global platform for SPC, and Our Responsibility to Children (ORC) initiatives The Bridge Institute, a global non-governmental organisation, and the Kalinga Fellowship, a programme for combating trafficking.