Child Labour and Drug Abuse

Ranita Sarma works as a Relationship officer at Oasis India, Bangalore and is passionate about supporting humanitarian issues like child rights. Read her thoughts below on child labour and substance abuse. In India, we often find children at restaurants cleaning…

Human Rights Are For Everyone

One of the articles in the Universal Declaration of Rights is that “All human beings are born free and equal with dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit…

A Shattered Safe Space

Home is our safe space. What if you do not feel safe in your own home? This was the reality for Kanaga* in Bangalore. Our staff have been following up with children and women in the communities that we have conducted…

COVID-19, Children & Education

COVID-19 has affected over 12 million people around the world, causing an economic devastation since the great depression in the 1920s. It is no doubt that the children from low income families have been greatly affected. Most of them are from families…

Why Give?

In the words of an 8-year-old who donated Rs.90 from her piggy bank to give stationary kits for children in the Nalasopara slum, giving is adding colour to someone’s life. Joanna says, “When I came to know that the Oasis India…

Have you heard of cyber trafficking?

When trafficking is committed with the use of Internet, it is called “cyber‐trafficking.” Child trafficking, cyber bullying, pornography, etc are all cyber crimes that are now greatly prevalent among children in India.  As children are spending more time online now than ever, many…

Sheena’s Story of Redemption

Sheena* was married at just 17 years of age. She was very young with two daughters when her husband left them to remarry. In an effort to find her husband, she took her two children and went to Bangalore. In the railway station,…