Today an agreement has been signed with Habitat Technologies, a low cost Technologies Construction Group from Kerala (Mr.G Shankar, whose designs we have approved used to work with Laurie Baker) for construction of the New Home for Survivors of Trafficking. The construction will take a year to complete. The deadline for evacuation of the current facility is nearing… work is being undertaken at neck breaking speed.
The past couple of months after purchase of the land we have been working towards fulfilling pre-construction statutory and legal formalities. These were delayed due to bureaucratic hitches but we are proud to declare that we did not give in to corruption. Despite the immense amount of pressure and blatant demands for bribe, we managed to get through all permissions without paying a single rupee in bribe. This is being stated as nothing short of historical.
We have installed a 10KV transformer and a bore well. We struck water at 90 feet (standard for the area is 160 ft) and kept going to 250 feet.
The campus will accomodate 600 survivors of sex trafficking both children and adults. It will have a school, hospice, administrative block staff quarters and in-house amphitheatre. We are also looking at the possibility of an electric crematorium if the government gives permission.
The total project cost is estimated at Rs.5 crores (USD 1.00 million).
We thank each one of the supporters who believe in the cause and are extending their help.