There is a strong prevalence of gender discrimination. A remarkable percentage of women are working as domestic helps in larger cities. Young girls are trafficked to larger cities and forced into prostitution or to work as bar dancers. Recent news revealed that women aged between 14 to 24 years are trafficked through fake marriages and children are being kidnapped.
The high vulnerability of the targeted community is primarily due to poverty, inadequate education and awareness, high birth rates, and lack of appropriate community action and distance from the enforcement machinery. The majority of the families are unaware of the prevalence of trafficking in their region. In addition, local government, police, and border security officials lack the background information to effectively deal with traffickers, their victims, and at-risk women and children.
Our objectives :
- generate awareness, on prevention of trafficking to adolescent girls, school children,
- orientation and distribution of IEC materials,
- capacity building and creation of networks of various stakeholders such as Government Officials and law enforcement agencies and
- skill development training to vulnerable ‘at risk’ and rescued victims of trafficking.
Project area : Swarupnagar block, North 24-Parganas district, share its border with Bangladesh thus facilitating intense cross border trafficking.
Beneficiaries : Vulnerable, prone to trafficking women and children
