Child Concern is a world‑class, rights‑based NGO founded in 01 August 1998 by Dr Shivajee Kumar to ensure that every child and every differently‑abled person in India can live with dignity, safety, and opportunity. From a single rented classroom on Patna’s Nala Road, we have grown into a nationwide movement that now operates in all six geographical regions of the country and maintains an unparalleled grassroots network in Bihar, where our teams serve across 38 districts, 534 blocks, and more than 8,000 panchayats.

Guided by the credo “Wherever humanity calls, we respond,” we address the full continuum of needs—education, health, protection, livelihoods, and emergency relief—for children with disabilities, persons with disabilities, women, elders, and other marginalised groups. Our overarching aim is to build an inclusive India in which every individual, regardless of ability or circumstance, enjoys equal rights and full participation in society. To achieve this, we pursue four core objectives:

• Promoting child rights and child protection.
• Delivering inclusive and special education through formal, non‑formal, digital, and community‑based models.
• Providing comprehensive health, rehabilitation, and mental‑well‑being services and championing economic empowerment through skills, technology, and employment.

These objectives inform every initiative we undertake—from “Samarpan,” our flagship special school and vocational training hub, to “Arogya Dham,” a centre for holistic healing, yoga, and psychosocial support, to our mobile therapy vans, legal‑aid helplines, disaster‑response teams, and research and advocacy units that shape policy at state, national, and international levels.

Child Concern delivers its services through a seamlessly integrated structure that combines outreach, institutional, outdoor, and tele‑digital programmes. Community mobilisers identify needs at village level, therapists, educators, and social workers design personalised, interventions and technologists develop accessible solutions so that children in remote hamlets can learn online, elders can receive tele‑counselling, and artisans with disabilities can sell their products to global markets.

Collaboration is central to our model:

We partner with government departments, UN bodies, universities, corporate CSR wings, and local self‑help groups to ensure scale, quality, and sustainability. Awards from the Government of India, WHO, and leading academic institutions recognise our evidence‑driven approach, but the measure that inspires us most is the growing number of children who study, play, and work alongside their peers without barriers.

Today, Child Concern stands ready to extend its hand wherever a call for help arises—whether responding to floods in Odisha, setting up inclusive classrooms in Uttar Pradesh, establishing assistive‑technology camps in Delhi, or guiding families through disability certification in West Bengal. We invite volunteers, professionals, and partners in India and abroad to join this journey of love, service, and commitment so that, together, we can build a future in which no child is left behind and every voice is heard.