Breaking The Silence

Breaking the Silence (BTS) is a Non-Government Organization established and run by a group of compassionate activists committed to combat Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Bangladesh. It has been working since 1994 throughout the country to address CSA issues from community to government level. Child Sexual Abuse is a very delicate issue with less exposure in the context of Bangladesh. It’s a social phenomenon which directly or indirectly affects most of the children in our society in a very subtle manner. Sexual abuse is probably the most traumatizing event in a child’s experience. BTS, therefore, is working on raising awareness of Child Sexual Abuse and its protection by the adults. Children from every level of the society are threatened with the chance of being sexually abused by different kinds of perpetrators. As the issue is highly sensitive, initially it was really difficult to conduct programs in the field. Once the sessions started, the adults of the community felt the importance and requested to continue sessions with them as well as their children. Being inspired with such an experience, BTS started the project named “Protecting girls & boys from Sexual Abuse”