Good Touch, Bad Touch
Helping young children keep their bodies safe, in words they understand.
- Classes 1 to 8
- About 40 minutes
For Schools
POCSO Awareness
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What the law says about keeping children safe, explained for children.
- Classes 3 to 10
- About 40 minutes
For Schools
About this session
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 protects every person under 18, boys and girls alike. This session explains, in children's words, what the law says nobody may do, how it protects a child who speaks up, and where to go for help.
It builds on Good Touch, Bad Touch, so for younger classes we suggest that session first. It also covers staying safe online.
What children learn
What the children take home
- What POCSO is and who it protects
- What nobody is allowed to do to a child
- Staying safe online and with pictures
- Say No, Get away, Tell
- If you speak up, the law keeps your name secret
- Who to call: Childline 1098, free, day or night
Think about it
Questions we ask the children
The children answer these together during the session. We find the answers with them on the day.
POCSO protects boys as well as girls
If the person is a relative, it is not a crime
A child can be punished for telling
Asking a child for private photos is a crime
You can call 1098 for free, any time
Who speaks, and the fee
What it costs
Our trained volunteers take every session, and on their own the session is free of charge. For Rs. 1,499 an advocate joins them, based on availability, and for Rs. 2,499 a person who has recovered from the issue joins as well and shares their experience. Because the session depends on our team, its date is subject to the availability of our team, and we confirm it with you by phone.
With Alorah volunteers
Free
With Alorah volunteers and an advocate
Rs. 1,499
With Alorah volunteers, an advocate and a person who has recovered
Rs. 2,499
The fee covers only 50% of the legal charges, the to and fro travel for the advocate and the recovered person, and the guest's accommodation and food. Alorah takes none of it, and bears the other 50% and any cost above it, because our purpose is to create awareness and to protect the safety of children and society.
When we confirm the date by phone, we email you a link to pay online by UPI, card or net banking. Nothing is paid before the date is confirmed.
Collecting this fee is lawful. Alorah Foundation is a registered charitable trust, and a charitable trust may collect a fee below cost for its own charitable work. This is a session fee with a payment receipt, not a donation, so it does not carry an 80G tax benefit.
The law behind this
Supreme Court of India, 19 October 2022, in ACIT (Exemptions) v. Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority: a charge for such work "on cost-basis or nominally above cost" is not trade, commerce or business.
Income-tax Act, 2025, sections 345 and 346: any activity a registered charitable trust carries on for a fee must be incidental to its objects and kept in separate books. Our session fees have their own receipt series and their own books.
Good to know
Before you book
Photographs and videos
Our team takes photographs and videos of every session, for our records and to publish on our website and social media. This is part of every session and is not optional.
If a child speaks up afterwards
Sometimes a student, or somebody else, comes up with something after a session. There is nothing to panic about: our legal team will take care of everything, and we work with the teacher you name.
Where we hold sessions
For now we hold sessions in Coimbatore city only.
What the school arranges
- A teacher stays in the room for the whole session.
- A projector and screen, and a microphone or speakers, if you have them. We bring our own laptop.
- A hall or a classroom that seats the students, with a power point near the projector.
- A teacher or counsellor a child can go to afterwards.
Sessions
Other sessions
Drug Awareness
Healthy choices, and the confidence to say no.
- Classes 5 to 12
- About 40 minutes
Bring this session to your school
Tell us your classes and a date, and our team will call you to confirm.
