Buimerc India Foundation marks 15 years of holistic services

Buimerc India Foundation marked its 15th year anniversary recently by providing year long support to community-led action and monitoring for child protection project by Childline 1098 in Kerala, India. This special project seeks to improve the crisis response service, exclusively for children in distress, which had seen an alarming increase in distress calls during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The childline project aims to activate and vitalise child protection committees in 109 Wards from the selected six panchayats (Balrampuram, Anjuthengu, Kanchiyar, Moravur, Peruvayal, and Badiadka) across the five districts (Trivandrum, Kozhikode, Kasargod, Idukki and Malappuram), where children are found to be most at risk. Buimerc India Foundation, based in Kochi, Kerala, India, is the philanthropic arm of Balachandran, executive chairman and CEO of Buimerc Corporation, DIFC, Dubai.