Sanchia Thimanna is a student of Development Studies at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is currently working on her master’s thesis which deals with the education of adolescent girls belonging to vulnerable castes and tribes in India. Preivously, she has worked with children in slum clusters and their access to quality schooling, and in a leprosy-afflicted rehabilitation village on children with physical and cognitive impairments. It is our privilege to welcome Sanchia to the Global Child Protection AoR as our new intern.