Mr. Yogesh Kumar Senior Adviser – Child Protection
Mr. Yogesh Kumar is the State Convenor of national networks - Campaign Against Child Labour and Campaign Against Child Trafficking, meant for the welfare of women and children. Currently he is also the Director of AFD-Pratidhi.
He has worked extensively on issues of women and children, including sexual assault (adult and children both), domestic violence, child labour, child trafficking etc. He has developed various training and education materials and undertraining capacity building programmes on gender and child protection issues, particularly sexual assault, juvenile justice, sexual harassment at workplace, for police officials, members/chairpersons of child welfare committees, representatives of civil society organisations, and children.
Being trained as a social worker, he has also provided psycho-social counseling to women and children who have been sexually abused.