To Investigate, Rescue, SafeCustody, HealthCare, LegalAid, Training, Repatriation for trafficked girls sold for forced prosti
1. Besides exposing slavery’s hidden role in commerce, we rescue, rehabilitate and repatriate these victims of human trafficking who are subjected to inhuman torture in the brothels for forced prostitution.
METHODS OF COERCION
• Implicit or explicit threat of violence: This can be directed at the victim or at her family back in the country of origin to ensure compliance.
• Restrictions on freedom of movement: Traffickers often confiscate the victim's identity or travel documents to control their movements and ensure that they do not try to escape.
• Debt bondage: The trafficked victim is normally in debt to traffickers or to their own family. They believe that eventually they will be able to make money, but their debt is inflated through exorbitant charges for interest, accommodation, food
• Fear of Authorities: victims are often in the country illegally and therefore are afraid that if they go to the authorities to make a complaint or to seek protection they will be imprisoned or deported.
• Isolation: Typically the victim will not know the language of country to which they have been brought; will have no money to live on let alone pay for a return ticket home; and will not have anybody that they can turn to for help.
• Emotional attachment: The trafficked person forms an emotional attachment to the trafficker and, they find it difficult to recognize their trafficker as an exploiter and to break free of them.
Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking in women and children, an obscene affront to their dignity and rights, is a gross commercialization of innocent human lives, indulged in by organized criminals. Trafficking violates all known canons of human rights and dignity. In this world of tragic and complex human abuse, women and children form a particularly vulnerable class. In the existing social scenario in India, vulnerability is a product of inequality, low status and discrimination as well as the patriarchal and captivating authority unleashed on children, especially the girl child.
This should be included in the mosaic as this is very practical work we are involved in.
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Year the initative began (yyyy)
2000
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Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Vulnerability of targeted populations
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Expose slavery’s hidden role in commerce
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic
8. Besides exposing slavery’s hidden role in commerce, we rescue, rehabilitate and repatriate these victims of human trafficking who are subjected to inhuman torture in the brothels for forced prostitution.
METHODS OF COERCION
• Implicit or explicit threat of violence: This can be directed at the victim or at her family back in the country of origin to ensure compliance.
• Restrictions on freedom of movement: Traffickers often confiscate the victim's identity or travel documents to control their movements and ensure that they do not try to escape.
• Debt bondage: The trafficked victim is normally in debt to traffickers or to their own family. They believe that eventually they will be able to make money, but their debt is inflated through exorbitant charges for interest, accommodation, food
• Fear of Authorities: victims are often in the country illegally and therefore are afraid that if they go to the authorities to make a complaint or to seek protection they will be imprisoned or deported.
• Isolation: Typically the victim will not know the language of country to which they have been brought; will have no money to live on let alone pay for a return ticket home; and will not have anybody that they can turn to for help.
• Emotional attachment: The trafficked person forms an emotional attachment to the trafficker and, they find it difficult to recognize their trafficker as an exploiter and to break free of them.
Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking in women and children, an obscene affront to their dignity and rights, is a gross commercialization of innocent human lives, indulged in by organized criminals. Trafficking violates all known canons of human rights and dignity. In this world of tragic and complex human abuse, women and children form a particularly vulnerable class. In the existing social scenario in India, vulnerability is a product of inequality, low status and discrimination as well as the patriarchal and captivating authority unleashed on children, especially the girl child.
This should be included in the mosaic as this is very practical work we are involved in.
Name Your Project
To Investigate, Rescue, SafeCustody, HealthCare, LegalAid, Training, Repatriation for trafficked girls sold for forced prosti
Describe Your Idea
1. Besides exposing slavery’s hidden role in commerce, we rescue, rehabilitate and repatriate these victims of human trafficking who are subjected to inhuman torture in the brothels for forced prostitution.
METHODS OF COERCION
• Implicit or explicit threat of violence: This can be directed at the victim or at her family back in the country of origin to ensure compliance.
• Restrictions on freedom of movement: Traffickers often confiscate the victim's identity or travel documents to control their movements and ensure that they do not try to escape.
• Debt bondage: The trafficked victim is normally in debt to traffickers or to their own family. They believe that eventually they will be able to make money, but their debt is inflated through exorbitant charges for interest, accommodation, food
• Fear of Authorities: victims are often in the country illegally and therefore are afraid that if they go to the authorities to make a complaint or to seek protection they will be imprisoned or deported.
• Isolation: Typically the victim will not know the language of country to which they have been brought; will have no money to live on let alone pay for a return ticket home; and will not have anybody that they can turn to for help.
• Emotional attachment: The trafficked person forms an emotional attachment to the trafficker and, they find it difficult to recognize their trafficker as an exploiter and to break free of them.
Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking in women and children, an obscene affront to their dignity and rights, is a gross commercialization of innocent human lives, indulged in by organized criminals. Trafficking violates all known canons of human rights and dignity. In this world of tragic and complex human abuse, women and children form a particularly vulnerable class. In the existing social scenario in India, vulnerability is a product of inequality, low status and discrimination as well as the patriarchal and captivating authority unleashed on children, especially the girl child.
This should be included in the mosaic as this is very practical work we are involved in.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
1. Besides exposing slavery’s hidden role in commerce, we rescue, rehabilitate and repatriate these victims of human trafficking who are subjected to inhuman torture in the brothels for forced prostitution.
METHODS OF COERCION
• Implicit or explicit threat of violence: This can be directed at the victim or at her family back in the country of origin to ensure compliance.
• Restrictions on freedom of movement: Traffickers often confiscate the victim's identity or travel documents to control their movements and ensure that they do not try to escape.
• Debt bondage: The trafficked victim is normally in debt to traffickers or to their own family. They believe that eventually they will be able to make money, but their debt is inflated through exorbitant charges for interest, accommodation, food
• Fear of Authorities: victims are often in the country illegally and therefore are afraid that if they go to the authorities to make a complaint or to seek protection they will be imprisoned or deported.
• Isolation: Typically the victim will not know the language of country to which they have been brought; will have no money to live on let alone pay for a return ticket home; and will not have anybody that they can turn to for help.
• Emotional attachment: The trafficked person forms an emotional attachment to the trafficker and, they find it difficult to recognize their trafficker as an exploiter and to break free of them.
Irrefutable is the fact that trafficking in women and children, an obscene affront to their dignity and rights, is a gross commercialization of innocent human lives, indulged in by organized criminals. Trafficking violates all known canons of human rights and dignity. In this world of tragic and complex human abuse, women and children form a particularly vulnerable class. In the existing social scenario in India, vulnerability is a product of inequality, low status and discrimination as well as the patriarchal and captivating authority unleashed on children, especially the girl child.
This should be included in the mosaic as this is very practical work we are involved in.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?
10. A. Investigators visit brothels as decoy customers to gain entry and conduct in-
brothel counseling with girls. This is a risky but novel innovation adopted by
us to approach the girls.
B. Wherever possible we even arrange marriages with the full knowledge and
consent of the boy and his parents.
C. Our network consists of informers, past victims, rival brothel keepers,
investigators and sometimes police. This is a very intricate and large
information network created by any NGO.
D. We own sophisticated equipment like Bio-Radar which enables us to locate
living beings in the hidden cells in the brothels from behind the walls.
E. We arrange mock trials to train girls in legal and court proceedings.
F. For initiating profits for the NGO to be able to continue humanitarian activities
in difficult times, we have implemented agricultural farming and Milk
production in our land of about 50 acres whereby we also train rescued girls as
farm labor and for Animal husbandry which are the main occupations in the
villages and interiors from where they hail.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
Over the past decade our management and team of employees are very well
trained and are capable of managing rescue. Rehabilitation and repatriation
including detailed investigation and in-brothel counseling. Our staff member has
been trained in Germany for the operation of Bio- Radar
How do you plan to grow your innovation?
12. Our innovations listed above grow by natural process of practice and continuous
improvements in communications. All the points listed from A to E are already
implemented in our day to day practice. The point listed in F namely agricultural
farming is under implementation. This point will generate income for the NGO
and it is very necessary to sustain these humanitarian activities in difficult times
because the influx of girls for forced prostitution continues unabated and it would
be inhuman to stop the activities of rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation for
want of funds. Our activities of agricultural farming and milk production by
rearing cattle will atleast partly sustain our organization to continue the basic
requirements.We believe that all NGOs should innovate ways and means to generate income to sustain their social activities so that they do not have to be stopped in difficult times and so that the available funds with the funders can be allotted to other needy NGOs.
We have already taken steps to grow by establishing three Protective Homes as
under where all our activities carry on :
a) Protective Home for 50 girls at Kandivali. Mumbai
b) Protective Home for 100 girls at Boisar, District Thane
c) Protective Home for 25 girls at Pune.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them?
13. We definitely seek collaboration with many other NGOs who are situated in the
source area from where these girls are trafficked. There are many NGOs in
different states of India as well as Nepal and Bangladesh who expertise in
rehabilitation and repatriation process. Naturally we cannot be expected to be
proficient in all the different languages like Indian, Nepalese and Bangladeshi
languages. Even the customs in the villages and interiors of these different places
are different. Hence the local source NGOs are much better suited to handle the
problems associated with repatriation. We have the cooperation of atleast one
efficient NGO in every state of India. In Nepal, we take the assistance from a well
known NGO in Kathmandu
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.
Rebirth of innocent, underprivileged girls/children and reintegration into respectable society by regenerating their faith in mankind and training them for sustenance
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?
15. 1. The investigation and in-brothel counseling are extremely risky.
2. At the time of rescue raids, the fights and bickering of the brothel keeper is
uncivilized.
3. About 35% of the rescued girls are HIV positive. They need rich nutrition,
intricate psycho-social counseling and special medical care.
4. Girls require deep counseling to convince them to accept training as in their
life they are not subjected to any responsibility in life.
5. Girls are to be trained for court proceedings and behaviour for giving
convincing testimony in the court..
6. Repatriation is always done in groups of five or six girls with our staff as
escorts. Sometimes it is very difficult to control these girls during long
journeys to Nepal &/or interiors in India
How many people have you served or plan to serve?
Our performance is obvious from the number of girls rescued, rehabilitated and repatriated by us as under:
Directly
So far we have rescued more than 1000 girls. With our facilities of providing safe custody, and rehabilitation, to about 200 girls, we can rescue 300 girls annually. Our activities concentrate in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and surrounding areas and Pune. Surprisingly we had raided the red light area in Delhi and rescued more than 100 girls in only one rescue raid .
Indirectly
The indirect impact of our work cannot be counted. When we rescue one girl, her family viz parents, brothers and sisters, cousins and all other relatives benefits. Moreover the training she gets at Rescue Foundation gives her an opportunity of supporting herself &/or her family. This gives an added financial benefit to the family.
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation?
All the measures of the impact are described above,.
Is there a policy intervention element to your innovation?
No
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation?
The beneficiaries of our intervention are the innocent, underprivileged, less educated girls/women/children who are the victims of human trafficking and are sold for forced prostitution against their will. They hail from the villages and interiors of India, Nepal and Bangladesh where the financial condition of their families are poor and they are not well educated. Due to the circumstances listed above, they are coerced and trafficked. It is the duty of the better endowed section of the society to extend our helping hand to them.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
Since we are a Non-Profit NGO, our activities so far are financed by Grants from European countries and U.S.A.
Since the awareness about the problems of Human Trafficking is much better in the western world and since our work is downright practical , we expect that the resourceful organizations all over the world will be ready to support us.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization
,. Annual budget of our organization is about two and half cores. At present we are able to manage our budget with the grants from our supporters
Our organization
Rescue Foundation is a registered and Licensed NGO which is been actively involved in Rescuing, Rehabilitating, Reintegrating and Repatriating unfortunate Girls/ Women who are trafficked from different parts of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, etc. These girls are sold in the Brothels of Mumbai, Pune, turbhe, Bhiwandi, etc for forced Prostitution. Pune has emerged as one of the leading city where large number of such brothels are situated.
We have Dedicated, Devoted and Determinant staff of about 50 people and result oriented management
Ultimate repatriation involves Happy Marriage. Rescue Foundation humbly announces that till now eleven of our girls have been married with the consent of the Boy’s families
We arrange two picnics annually for the girls to water parks and other picnic destination.
We also arrange Mock Trials to help the girls understand the entire Legal court procedures so that they are more open in the court of law to help us Punish the traffickers.
What is the potential demand for your innovation?
. As our organization is fully capable of fulfilling all duties, our potential demand would be suitable dedicated staff and funding.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?
. The increasing inflamation rate in India has reached all time high of almost 9%. This is the main barrier in our financial sustainability. Our supporters are pleased as they have personally visited us several times and seen our progress and transparency.
The Story
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
Founder President
BALKRISHNA ACHAR Y A
From childhood his nature was revolutionary & he always attempted to struggle against unjust & anti-social situation. That is the reason that he left his studies and jumped into Indian Army which Would serve his country even at a danger to his life. Then, latter, he came across the humble faces of unfortunate girls who were going through hell in the red light district of Kamatipura in Mumbai and risked his life to rescue them.In 1995, a Nepali small girl was crying pathetically in a dark room, wanting to be rescued from the inhuman trade of forced prostitution. That night he could not sleep. On the next day, also he lost his sleep. A person who was stronger than stone, appeared even more delicate than cotton. He was totally shaken. On one side he was surrounded by family, business and society while on the other side a deep rooted desire for changing the fate of these unfortunate girls to kindle hope of integrating with respectable society. He courageously decided to walk on a novena path
From that day onwards, a distinct change came over him. It looked as if he started a part time honorary job in the red light area of Mumbai.
In the evening, when he used to down the shutter of the shop early and move to the red light area of Kamatipura early in the night, it was a matter of frightful surprise to all. He was counselling one girl who wanted to be rescued. God wished him to rescue five girls. And at the time of rescue, 13 girls came forward. It was like a God-sent Father had come to rescue them and give them a new life. That particular day also his eyes were wet but they were wet by tears of joy.
Slowly, he distanced himself from the family and started getting involved in the perils of red light areas. The possessiveness of the family and their concem about his safety were many a times instrumental in their try to persuade him not to get involved in such dangerous activities. But he was engrossed in his will to serve the mankind by rescuing these unfortunate humans. He transformed himself into a savior of the underprivileged.
On one hand, the heart breaking cries of these thousands of girls and on the other hand, the lack of finance made him pursue his resolution ever so strongly. Luckily he got the support of Ms. Anuradha Koirala, President of Maiti Nepal. Her support proVided him with the strength to pursue his objective vigorously. This was the beginning in an organized way.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material
Triveni Bal Krishna Acharya
Date Of Birth 1st December 1964
Education
1992 B.A Gujarat University
Diploma in Journalism C.N.M Cool
Awards • Kutch Shakti Award for Social Service in 2001.
• Best Journalist Award from Lions Clubs of Borivili, Mumbai
• Woman of Peace from USA (2006)
• Bio Radar Training From Germany,
• The World’s Children Prize for the rights of the child presented
By the Swedish Sovereign.
• Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award for service to children
Presented by Minister of Human Resource Development.
• “Stree shakti” award was presented by Ms. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson , U.P.A, ruling party
Language Gujarati, Hindi, Nepali, English
Emphasis of Work
Our work involves rescue, prevention, protection, etc. Thus we are the only NGO in India handling the entire range from investigation and rescue to repatriation and weddings.
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