A New Shelter for Sex-trafficking Victims in India

Finally after struggling for more than a year and a half we are near completion of the new shelter. On 28th April 2011 the whole campus will be ready for occupation. With a quite prayer within the family we are planning to shift to the new location in the first week of May. The decision to make it a low key affair has come...

Greetings from chilly Hyderabad! All of us here are lost mobilizing support to complete the construction of the new shelter. It is nearing end. If all goes well we should shift by the end of February. Never knew construction was such a depleting exercise! As we usher in the New Year, we are truly hoping this year will be...

" Dear friends of Prajwala...last many months have been crazy. Construction of the new shelters is at its peak. In two months time we will complete the work. Running short of 300,000 USD as the cost of construction material has shot by 200% here in Hyderabad. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I am praying and hoping...

Dear Friends of Prajwala warm greetings from a very damp and slushy Hyderabad. Just wanted to give you a quick update of the construction of our new shelter. We are not taking any chances and ensuring that the campus is a full fledged one. Thank you so much for all your faith and support.

Bill Brower is a Field Program Officer with GlobalGiving who visited our partners’ projects throughout South and Southeast Asia. On June 10th he visited a Prajwala complex in Hyderabad, which houses several social enterprises. His “Postcard” from the visit: Prajwala rightly restricts visitors to their shelters for...

Construction on all buildings for the holistic shelter home for victims of sex trafficking has started simultaneously. Here are some pictures of the work in progress. We appreciate your continued support to the cause..

In January, 2010 a Construction Consultant Company was engaged to monitor the progress and quality of execution of the construction of shelter homes in Amangal. They reported that the work being carried out using that alternate /low cost technology did not promise ground stability and the safety of the structure would be...

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...

It is two and a half months since we were asked to vacate our shelters. The last few weeks were of nightmarish struggles and humiliation. Getting another rented space to shelter trafficked victims became virtually a impossible mission. It was as if we were the prime polluters in the city. I cannot recount the humiliation...