Not For Sale: Rescuing Victims of HumanTrafficking

Introduction

Not For Sale: Rescuing Victims of Human Trafficking " is a project which is being implemented by Rescue Foundaiton at the Delhi Home. It is a Protection Home for Children who are in need of care and protection.  

The Delhi Police and the Local Child Welfare Committees admit chidlren and young girls who have been sexually exploited or abused.  These are then taken care by the Delhi Home Shelter Team during thier time of rehabilitation

The Delhi Rescue Team conducts rescue operations based on information from the Police or Local Partners.  Young girls and at times children engaged in hazardous industries are rescued as part of these rescue operations

Investigatons & Rescue Operatons

Most of these Rescue Operations were conducted in the neibouring areas of Delhi, such as Jharkand, Gaziabad, and Betiya.  We found girls were kidnaped and forced to perform in Dance Orchestra and have sex with the men visitng these dances.  The Rescue Operations were conducted in partnership with the Local Anti Human Trafficking Units of the Police and Local Organizations.

Rescue Data

No of Rescue Operations conducted by the Delhi Team 13

No of Major Girls Rescued 3

No of Minor Girls Rescued 20

Admission & Discharge during the reporting period

Admission

Major 18

Minor 62

Discharge: These girls or children were restored back to their families or parents after receiving orders from the courts or Child Welfare Committees.  A thorugh investigations  was conducted to check if the families are able to support them and not send them back to be exploited and abused

Major 6

Minor 31

Rehabilitation

An average no of 50 young girls and children were taken care of during these last 4 Months.  As part of their Rehabilitation the children were provided with food, shelter, education support, legal aid, counselling, vocational guidance

Meditation, Physical Training & Entertainment

The the Home also ensured that the children had daily medication, prayers, yoga, exercises in form of Zumba Exercises.  Around 25 of them were taken for a trip to Mount Abu and Rishikesh.  The trip was a huge success as the children enjoyed themselves with some sight seeing, fun games and food

Health Montioring

All those who were admitted had their health monitored by the visiting Medical Practioner.  Few of the children needed to be taken to the local hospitals.

Education

Girls in Formal School were 26.  These children were accompanied by the Care Takers during their school going and return.  1 Girl is attending college.

Besides the formal schooling those children who are not able to attend formal school for whatever reason had informal literacy sessions which were attended by 25 children on a Monthly Average.

Counselling 

All those admitted received counselling, some of the children needed trauma counselling too.  Beside counselling the children the Counsellor also conducts counselling for parents and family memebrs

Vocational Training

Vocation Traininlg in form of Tailoring, Art & Craft, Hair & Make Up, making products was conducted regulary.  An average of 20 children participated in these vocation training sessions

Conclusion

We are grateful for the support of our donors which has enabled us to acomplish the above results for the 4 months of reporting  

Introduction

The Project "Not for Sale" was initiated to  support the Girls, Young Children who have been victims of Child Sexual Offences, Human Trafficking or rescued from Child Labor.

After working in Maharashtra for nearly 15 years, Rescue Foundation realized the need to establish themselves in the Northern States of India.  We noticed many children especially girls were victims of Child Sexual Offences, Chld Labor or were trafficked for Commercial Sex mostly from the States of Delhi, Meerut, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh.  There were also cases of run away or missing chldren who landed up in Brothels, or on the Streets.

Rescue Foundation set up a Protection Home on the outskirsts of Delhii to Care for these children.  The Home set up is licenced by the Govt. under Women & Chlld Ministries to shelter children who need Care & Protection.

Rescue Foundation has a small team who manage the Home since its inception in 2019.  The Home operates on the following objectives :

Rescue, Rehabilitation & Restororation

Investigation & Rescue Team

A small team partners with the local Anti Human Trafficking Units across these Northern States and local NGOs to rescue children who are trapped in industrial units working in hazardous condition in full knowledge of their parents.  Besides these we have rescued several young minor girls below the age of 18 years who were either trapped into commercial or forced sex.  Many of these girls were lured into dance and singing orchestras which operate across the Northern States.  In the garb of Orchestra these young girls were forced to provide sex to customers, at times forced through physical violence or gun trotting men.

No of Rescue Operatons 6

No of Minor Girls Rescued from Human Trafficking & Forced Sex 18

Admissions & Discharge

Girls both Major and Minors were admitted to the Home.  Most of the admissions are done through the orders ot the Local Child Welfare Dept. and Police.

Discharges were done after the child completed the Rehabilitation Period, or as per the orders of the Child Welfare Dept to restore the child  to the Parents. The Child was only restored once we were convinced the parents were able to care for them and would not force them to work or be abused

Admissions

Major Girls 4

Minor Girls 32

Discharge /Handing Over to Parents

Minors 35

Care & Protection

During the Rehabilitation Period the Girls are trained in Tailoring, Basic Computers, Art & Craft, Product Making.  They have regular schedule of physical training, mediation, yoga and Zumba.

Monthly Average of Children Cared & Trained  27

Education Formal/Non Formal

Few Girls are encouraged to complete their Formal Education and the Home facilitates this process by ensuring they have a birth certificate, school leaving certicate or aadhar card (govt ID)

17 girls have been admitted to Formal School.  Some of them are enrolled in the National Open School and are coached at the Home and appear for their 10th or 12th Grade Examination

Around 40 Girls who were not ablle to attend Formal Education were given In Formal Education such as basic English, Maths, Sciences at the Home itself

2 of the girls attend College and doing very well in their studies

1 of our past Major Girl was pursuinlg her Degree Course in Science and has been handed over to her Famliy

Health

Routine Health was monitored by a visiting doctor and in case of critical illness they were referred to the local govt health centers.  Besides this there is regular health and hygiene session for every child.

Counselling

Individual and Group Counselling were conducted for all the children to help them with the stress and trauma post their rescue and during the rehabilitation period. 

Restoring to Families

In an attempt to build good relationship with the Families the Home encourages the children to speak to their Families over phone.  Few times families visit them and also some children are sent for short periods during vacation or festivals.

Lega Aid

Each child is ensured that he/she has acess to legal aid when needed.  In case they have to appear in the courts, the child along with parents is counselled to appear and testify which would hellp in penalizing the perpetrator as per the Indian Law.

Building Relations with the Govt

Over the years we have builit good partnership with 3 local Child Welfare Committees, District Child Protectaion Units.  We have conducted regular monitoring meetings with these partners, shared information. 

Conclusion

We are grateful for the support of our donors to this Project Not For Sale, we truly believe rescuing and caring for these girls has ensured that not just the girls are rescued and rehabilitated safely, but we are able to counsel and restor them to their parents in the hope that they will not be sold or trafficked.