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Clips from my interview with Bangalore Urban’s District Child Protection Officer, translated with English subtitles. Leena Maam shares her perspectives on child welfare, her time at Shishu Mandir, and problems children face in society today.

I met Leena Kallammanavar during a summer internship with the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) of Bangalore Urban Central, where she serves as District Child Protection Officer. She had entered the field in 2008 as a Child Development Project Officer, spent seven and a half years running a Government Girls’ Home and Shishu Mandir, and…

Leena Kallammanavar has spent nearly two decades working inside India’s child protection system, and she still describes her job in the same way she probably did on her first day in 2008: as a coordination problem. “We don’t work in a cocoon or as an individual person,” she told me. Her department, the District Child…