Chennai-based NGO Tulir awarded International Prize for Child abuse Prevention The Chennai-based non-governmental organization Tulir-CPHCSA (Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse) has been awarded this year’s prestigious WWSF’s First Prize for “Prevention of Child Abuse” among over 600 organizations from 110 countries. This award is given every year by the Geneva-headquartered Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) to four organizations that carry out innovative child sex abuse preventive initiatives in their countries. The first Indian organization to be conferred with this award, Tulir ( which in Tamil means the first leaves of a plant or leaves after a period of adversity), was set up in August 2004 with a vision of propagating the awareness that it is the right of every child to feel safe from sexual abuse at all times, and also to equip children, families and other stakeholders to prevent and deal effectively with this fundamental violation of childhood that ...