Empower 100 Girls in Asia's Largest Red Light Area

AAWC enjoyed a wonderful season!

Aditi couldn’t speak or understand any language other than her mother tongue Nepali, when she joined AAWC’s night shelter program, which led to frustration and aggression in her. As she started mingling with her friends at AAWC, she was able to understand, speak and write in Hindi and Marathi. Now she is also learning to read and write English through various activities in the centre like Spoken English sessions, newspaper reading, story-telling sessions etc.

With your kind donation and support, Aditi not only concentrates in studies and goes to school with enthusiasm but is always eager to participate in extra-curricular activities and learn new things.

 Organizational Updates

• Festive Celebrations: This season we celebrated Navratri, Diwali, Children’s Day and Christmas with devotion and festive fervor.

• Accolades:  AAWC was privileged to get selected by FunOKPlease as partner for fund-raising for the book launch event of “Brown like Dosas, Samosas and Sticky Chikki.” FunOKPlease is a Mumbai based publisher of children’s books in English. Udaan beneficiaries gave an amazing performance on “Mujhe kya Bechega Rupaiyya”

• Capacity Building: The Communication and Fundraising Managers networked with partners, peers, technologists, diplomats, activists and experts and discussed about challenges in fundraising and communications in workshops conducted by Peace Tech Exchange and GlobalGiving Current Partner. The staff also attended a workshop organized by AAWC on ITPA on various definitions and provisions in the existing Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act of 1956 and proposed amendments to it.

• Monthly medical check-ups: Umeed, Umang, and Udaan members were examined by medical teams from Reliance Foundation and Decimal Foundation and administered medicines, de-worming and Vitamins as per necessity.

 Udaan Updates

 Empowerment

• Career guidance: Computer classes in partnership with Vedanta Foundation are started twice a week and the girls are catching up with tremendous enthusiasm.

• Mentoring: In collaboration with Raindancer, Project Lighthouse continues and Dog therapy session for the girls in the Night Shelter is started.

• Edutainment Workshops: The girls attended a workshop on creative writing by Ms. Seher which probed them to think beyond the regular boundaries and put their ideas on paper in creative ways. The Ooperai Foundation (Panama) held a drawing analysis session with the girls and in creative ways allowed the girls to explore the idea of their favorite place.

• Self DefenseWork-shops: A self defense training session was held for the Udaan girls to teach them the basic defense tactics to protect themselves from unwanted attention. The session was taken by Mr. Lazarus Mascarenhas followed by a motivational lecture by Mr. Rajendran Nair.

• Recreational-excursions: Udaan girls participated in the Concern India Foundation sports day where 26 NGOs participated in this event at Priyadarshini Park. Girls visited Salam Bombay on 18th Oct 2014 for Diwali celebration.