Thousands of girls, affected by poverty, get trafficked from South 24 Parganas, West Bengal to red light areas in different metro cities of India. Objectives of the project are to address the trafficking from South 24 Parganas: (a) poor investigation, rescue of trafficked persons, (b) stigmatization of victim in their families and societies, (c) regular intimidation made by traffickers. GGBK plans to address problems under 3 axes- economic rehabilitation of victims, victim protection & advocacy.
Girls affected by poverty, get trafficked from blocks adjacent to Sundarban area to several brothels of India. State fails to protect or rehabilitate them. Survivors of sex trafficking, upon returning to their homes, suffer from alienation & stigma, become vulnerable to trappings by men. Panchayets neglects to victim's needs for rehabilitation, police fails to protect victims from intimidation by traffickers and compel them to settle out of court. Lack of livelihoods often pushes them to brothel
The project will (a) offer direct services to 50survivors, using restorative practices, to help them cope with and challenge stigma, develop case management services, mobilize support from stakeholders and communities (b) offer services to survivors, set up and run micro-businesses (c) lobby with relevant state ministry to adopt the model of micro businesses with survivors as a rehabilitation scheme (d) document human right violations of survivors through research and campaign against the same.
Long term impacts of this project are: (1) Micro enterprises by 50survivors of sex trafficking will be formed, through which poverty among the survivors will be alleviated, re-trafficking will be prevented (2) Will break the survivors' alienation and victimhood, and strengthen their resilience and support them in their fight against traffickers (3) Knowledge and capacity of the workers will be built (4) In long run the state will be forced to think about the survivors' economic rehabilitation.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
