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more-inThe Kerala State Council for Child Welfare’s Thanal project, with a toll-free helpline 1517, has received over 9,103 calls since its launch seven months ago. The woman could not go home, so Thanal volunteers intervened. Thanal volunteers and authorities of the panchayat spoke to their families, informed the police, and sent the students for counselling or treatment. Thanal recently received an anonymous call that adolescents were being supplied drugs from a shop in the city. Thanal receives calls from children complaining of sexual abuse..