Founded by Army veterans and civil society members, Swakshatra works to protect children from sexual violence and exploitation. Major Bhavana Chiranjay, founder and executive secretary, talks about why healing is at the heart of Swakshatra’s work.
In the late 1990s, while living in Hyderabad, Major Bhavana Chiranjay was pacing her room at midnight, preparing for the civil services examination, when something outside her window caught her eye.
There was a flicker of movement in the narrow shadow between a builder’s heap of sand and its sandbags.
She was certain it was not a dog.
Bhavana and her sister stepped outside to look.
“It was a child, around eight or nine years old.
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