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A growing Collabactor Network to celebrate childhood
Collabactors are people and organisations across India who care deeply about giving every child the best possible experience of childhood. United by a common purpose, the Collabactor Network brings together communication, education and sustained action - turning the celebration of childhood into a growing social mission.
"Kheloge Kudoge Banoge Lajawab": A Children's Manifesto for Play is Born
Perspective, Collabactions
(Not) Taught by the Bell: Part II
Collabactions, Perspective
#Be Her Hero
Collabactions
#ChildhoodDialogues
Collabactions
#GetChildrenReading for Children in the Early Years
Collabactions
10 Things About the Jaadui Pitara
Perspective, Collabactions
5 Lessons we Learnt from Childhood Unlocked - Celebrating Karnataka’s Journey in Early Childhood Education
Perspective, Collabactions
A Day in the Life of a Child
Perspective, Collabactions
A Jubilee of Joy: What Anganwadis Have Taught Us About Care
Perspective, Collabactions
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
A snippet from our field visits in Bangalore and Lucknow
Collabactions, Perspective
Aaha 2023 - Digital Pitara
Collabactions, Activities
Aaha 2023 - Digital Pitara
Collabactions, Activities
Aao Bachpan Manaye - A children's festival organised by LECIN
Collabactions, Perspective
Baatein Sneh Khel
Collabactions, Perspective
Baatein, Sneh, Khel: Everyday Moments of Responsive Caregiving in Indian Families
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak | India Climate Week
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak Archive - Investing in Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak Archive - Investing in Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: Reimagining Investing in Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What Adult Conveniences Are We Subsidising?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What Did You Have That Today’s Children Are Losing?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What If Children Were Treated as Present Citizens?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What Is the Return on Investment That Childhood Itself Would Care About?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What Shaped Us Beyond the CV?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What the Letters Revealed
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba: What Would 2050 Headlines Need to Say?
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Beacons
Collabactions, Perspective
Bachpan Ka Thyohaar
Collabactions
Bachpan Manao at the Festival of Play by Star Papaya
Collabactions, BM8
Bachpan Manao at the Festival of Play by Star Papaya
Collabactions, BM8
Bachpan Manao Sabha: A Day of Thought, Story, and Play
BM8, Collabactions
Beyond Maternity Leave: A Shared Future for Care in India
Collabactions, Perspective
Beyond Maternity Leave: What It Takes to Make Care Work, Work
Collabactions, Perspective
Beyond the Blackboard: What India’s Tuition Spaces for Young Children Are Quietly Holding Together
Collabactions, Perspective
BMBJ IVRS Campaign on GramVaani
Collabactions
Building Inclusive Classrooms with Dhwani- Voices of Practitioners
Playbooks, Collabactions
Building Inclusive Classrooms with Dhwani- Voices of Practitioners
Playbooks, Collabactions
Bulbule Festival – To the Children, For the Children, By the Children
Collabactions
CARRIED: Everyday Care as the First Architecture of Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Celebrating Abundance in Collabaction with Pratham Education Foundation
Collabactions
Celebrating Fathers in Play: Key to a Child Learning and Growing
Research, Collabactions
Celebrating First Songs: Stories, Songs & Early Learning
Collabactions
Celebrating First Songs: Stories, Songs & Early Learning
Collabactions
Celebrating Our Children's Milestones: A Parent's Journey
Perspective, Collabactions
Celebrating Our Children's Milestones: A Parent's Journey
Perspective, Collabactions
Celebrating Play
Collabactions
Childhood Dialogues
Collabactions
Daycare in India: Adapting to a New Era of Parenting, Care-giving and Work
Collabactions, Perspective
Designing From High Status
Collabactions, Perspective
Early Educator Development - A Research
Research, Collabactions
Eleven Stories From Inside India's Early Childhood Space
Collabactions
Eleven Stories From Inside India's Early Childhood Space
Collabactions
Everybody Plays! What's the difference?
Perspective, Collabactions
Everybody Plays! What's the difference?
Perspective, Collabactions
Everybody Plays! What's the difference?
Perspective, Collabactions
Exploring Play in Pollachi: Slate Scribbles
Perspective, Collabactions
Factory Crèches in India: A Neglected Lifeline
Collabactions, Perspective
Father Involvement with their Pre-School Age Children - A Research
Research, Collabactions
Holding Childhood in Meghalaya: Lessons in Care, Learning, and Joy
Perspective, Collabactions
Holding Childhood Together: Care Networks at the Margins
Collabactions, Perspective
How to Care in the Heat: A summer holiday story in three-and-a-half voices
Collabactions, Perspective
Hyperlocal Care Economies: The Crucial Role of Context in Early Childhood Development
Collabactions, Perspective
Ideas for Collabaction
Collabactions
In the Care of Each Other: Slate Scribbles
Collabactions, Perspective
Inside Voices of Teaching: Stories & Learning from Classrooms
Collabactions
Insights from the Voices of Play Conference
Research, Collabactions
Invisible Threads, Indispensable Hands
Collabactions, Perspective
Joyful Childhoods: Conversations on Play as the Foundation of Learning
Perspective, Collabactions
Joyful Childhoods: Conversations on Play as the Foundation of Learning
Perspective, Collabactions
Joyful Childhoods: Conversations on Play as the Foundation of Learning
Perspective, Collabactions
Learning in the digital age
Collabactions, Perspective
Learning Takes Time. Experts Know It
Collabactions, Perspective
Learning to See Again: A Visit to Tinker Lab
Collabactions, Perspective
Librarians of India
Collabactions
Listening to Children's Voices
Perspective, Collabactions
Listening to Children's Voices
Perspective, Collabactions
Listening to Children's Voices
Perspective, Collabactions
Listening to Children's Voices
Perspective, Collabactions
Lock Worry, Unlock Joy: A Space at Manotsava That Let Adults Feel Again
Collabactions
Makkala Hubba 2026, Bengaluru – A City Comes Together for Childhood
Collabactions
Makkala Hubba, Supported by Bachpan Manao: When a Festival Becomes a Movement
Collabactions
Moms for Math: Reimagining Math Through Everyday Life and Play
Perspective, Collabactions
Moms for Math: Reimagining Math Through Everyday Life and Play
Perspective, Collabactions
Moms for Math: The Mathematical Magic We Already Do
Perspective, Collabactions
Moms for Math: The Mathematical Magic We Already Do
Perspective, Collabactions
Not Just a Toy: How Children Befriend Objects
Collabactions, Perspective
Personas of Primary Caregivers
Research, Collabactions
Play, Learn, Grow, Repeat
Perspective, Collabactions
Playtime With Parents Through Technology
Collabactions, Perspective
Playtime With Parents Through Technology
Collabactions, Perspective
Playtime With Parents Through Technology
Collabactions, Perspective
Playtime With Parents Through Technology
Collabactions, Perspective
Radha of Indavara: A Librarian’s Tale
Collabactions
Reflections from the Talk, Care, Play Symposium: Designing for Fathers
Collabactions
Relearning Care: From Quiet Burden to Shared Practice
Collabactions, Perspective
Roots of Care, Surrounded by Leaves of Coffee
Perspective, Collabactions
Someone Always Notices: Slate Scribbles
Perspective, Collabactions
Stories, spaces and systems 'of play'
Perspective, Collabactions
Stories, spaces and systems 'of play'
Perspective, Collabactions
Stories, spaces and systems 'of play'
Perspective, Collabactions
Stories, spaces and systems 'of play'
Perspective, Collabactions
Story Chikkappa
Collabactions
Success Stories of the Read Aloud Programme in Karnataka
Perspective, Collabactions
Tapestry of us: Weaving Diversity into the Fabric of Society
Research, Collabactions
The End of Joint Families – What Are We Losing, What Are We Gaining, and What Are We Failing to Rethink?
Perspective, Collabactions
The First Songs
Collabactions
The First Songs
Collabactions
The First Songs
Collabactions
The Heart of Bachpan Manao, Badthe Jao
Perspective, Collabactions
The Heart of Bachpan Manao, Badthe Jao
Perspective, Collabactions
The Ones Who Keep It Going: Celebration, caregiving, and the seasons we hold for children
Perspective, Collabactions
The Shape of Everyday: Slate Scribbles
Perspective, Collabactions
The Shape of Everyday: Slate Scribbles
Perspective, Collabactions
The Shared Shelf: When a Library Begins to Truly Welcome Every Child
Collabactions
The Shared Shelf: When a Library Begins to Truly Welcome Every Child
Collabactions
The Shared Shelf: When a Library Begins to Truly Welcome Every Child
Collabactions
Thriving Caregivers Enable Thriving Childhoods - Resilient Parenting
Perspective, Collabactions
Thriving Caregivers Enable Thriving Childhoods – Rethinking Caregiver Well-being
Perspective, Collabactions
Thriving Childhoods: What We Remember, What We Dream
Perspective, Collabactions
Thriving Childhoods: What We Remember, What We Dream
Perspective, Collabactions
UNICEF India's #HourOfFreePlay Cards
Collabactions
Unveiling Anganwadi Realities - A Research
Research, Collabactions
Voices of Mothers - A Research
Research, Collabactions
Voices of Play launches A National Play Manifesto
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play launches A National Play Manifesto
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play launches A National Play Manifesto
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play: A Celebration of Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play: A Celebration of Childhood
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Play: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices Of Play: The Making Of A Play Manifesto By Children, For Children & For Every Caring Adult
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices Of Play: The Making Of A Play Manifesto By Children, For Children & For Every Caring Adult
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Teaching
Collabactions, Perspective
Voices of Teaching
Collabactions, Perspective
What Holds Up Childhood: an Installation on Visible & Invisible Care Work
Perspective, Collabactions
What Holds Up Childhood: an Installation on Visible & Invisible Care Work
Perspective, Collabactions
What we learned from the NDTV Campaign: Bachpan Manao with EkStep & NDTV
Perspective, Collabactions
When Care Gets Distant: Rethinking Grandparents, Grandkids, and the Missing Middle
Perspective, Collabactions
When Mothers Embrace Math, Children Discover Their Potential
Perspective, Collabactions
Where Care Continues: A Visit to Salaam Baalak Trust
Collabactions, Perspective
Where Laughter Leads the Learning: What Joy Really Looks Like in the Early Years Classroom
Collabactions
Where Laughter Leads the Learning: What Joy Really Looks Like in the Early Years Classroom
Collabactions
Who Cares About Care? Unpacking India’s Overlooked Crisis
Perspective, Collabactions
Why a Bachpan Baithak at Makkala Hubba?
Perspective, Collabactions
Why Singing to Children Matters: What Research Tells Us About Lullabies, and Mother-Infant Bonding
Research, Collabactions
Why we Struggle to Design from Observation
Perspective, Collabactions
आलिया की कहानी: एक कोना, एक उम्मीद
Collabactions
நிறை - மாற்றுக் கற்றல் மையம் (Nirai - Alternative Learning Center)
Collabactions, Perspective
A Row of Slippers by the Door
Perspective, Collabactions
Explore the Collabactor Showcase
Discover articles, Collabactions, masterclasses, research and other work shared by Collabactors.
Each profile brings together an organisation's contributions to Bachpan Manao.
Collabactor Directory
Meet the organisations that make up the wider Bachpan Manao network, each advancing childhood through its own work and context. Visit their websites to learn more about what they do.
