Gender Equality India Project #33483

Gift Freedom to 500 Victims of Sex Trafficking

by Save The Children India

Gift Freedom to 500 Victims of Sex Trafficking

Project Report | Feb 26, 2020
Partnership with the Embassy of Netherlands

By Eashaan Kappagantula | Donor Reporting Manager

Maharashtra sees an average of 1500 women and children being rescued through around 500 + raids on places of exploitation including brothels, lodges, spas etc. While rescuing victims from exploitative situations is a globally recognized strategy that sets rehabilitation is motion, many victims construe their rescue and placement at the shelter home –where they are meant to receive protection, care, education, skills training and other support—as a way of punishment for engaging in sex work.

In majority cases, victims of trafficking have only basic levels of literacy and come from poor families; many also come from communities with inter-generational prostitution where the initiation of girls into sex work is an accepted practice. It is imperative to provide the opportunities of education and exposure to employability to survivors within the shelter to prevent their lapse in same exploitative situation.

Through the project in partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands , Save The Children India intervenes within the government run shelters and with survivors restored with families by providing opportunities of formal education and employability training/assistance and follow-up. The interventions also engage with shelter home authorities and other related stakeholders to promote a victim-centered approach to rehabilitation. As a result, survivors are empowered through educational and skills training initiatives at the shelter home and follow-up after restoration with their families.

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Dec 2, 2019
Purvi has found her faith back in humanity

By jyoti Nale | Programme Director

Purvi (name changed to protect identity) is an example of how innocent young girls fall prey to violation that happens as a result of cultural practices that have been on-going and un-questioned. A native of the state of M.P, Purvi was about 15 years of age and one of the eight siblings in her family when she was trafficked into the gory world of sex-trade. After seven months of continued ordeal, Purvi was rescued from a notorious red-light area of Ganga Jamuna, Nagpur. At an age when children go to school and have their eyes twinkling with aspirations, Purvi's body had been continuously violated. While the scars on the body were visible and could be healed with time, the injuries to her emotional and psychological being refused to fade. STCI team assisted Purvi in her rehabilitation and the justice delivery process. Continued engagement with Purvi by the STCI team, enabled her to demand justice for herself. Purvi testified in the court fearlessly against her perpetrator who is a well known trafficker and who had multiple cases of trafficking pending against her. Purvi's scars gradually began to heal, and Purvi felt victorious after her legal case ended in conviction and the perpetrator was awarded 7 years imprisonment. The perpetrator did not stop at that, she used all her clout and money to appeal against the sentence in the High Court of Bombay at the Nagpur Bench. The High Court refused to interfere with the sentence and eventually when the perpetrator moved the Supreme Court of India, the sentence was stayed there as well. The perpetrator is now serving her sentence in the jail, and Purvi has moved on and has found her faith back in humanity.

Sex trafficking is Gross violation of human rights of those are trafficked especially women and children. India is a source transit and destination for human trafficking and inadequacy and efficacy of the response to the crime remains a critical challenge. Anti-trafficking initiatives of Save The Children India,strive to empower communities and other related stakeholders especially the shelter homes, Child Welfare Committees, Law enforcement Judiciary. We work in partnership with various government departments to strengthen systemic response for prevention, protection of survivors and prosecution of perpetrators.

Save The Children India’s Interventions with Survivors of Sex Trafficking aim to provide education, psychological care and livelihood opportunities to survivors of sex trafficking, trafficked within the country and from bordering countries. This quarter, Save The Children India worked with 46 survivors of sex trafficking by providing them with opportunities of formal education, trauma care, Livelihood and enterprise development opportunities.

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Aug 20, 2019
Geeta Found Her Freedom In Education

By Jyoti Tajane | Programme Director

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