Articles by Shimon Ramesh Patole

Shimon Ramesh Patole lives in Mankhurd, Mumbai. He has been a part of the children’s collective Bal Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan for the past six years. Shimon is passionate about child rights and protection and has been a part of many local campaigns

This Child Rights Week, Citizen Matters brings to you voices from three young community leaders. This is the second story of the series. I am Shimon Patole, living in the rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) colony of Lallubhai Compound. Many areas of our community are unsafe from the point of view of children. This was also evident in the community mapping of safe and unsafe spaces done by the children themselves in 2018. Hence our children’s collective, the Bal Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, which works at the community level, has been working to make our area safe over the last 5 years…

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