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pilot study (“Bodies for a Meal”) on the socio-economic conditions of women
prostitutes and their children in Mysore district, Karnataka. Since then, Odanadi
has been making pioneering efforts to empower and rehabilitate victim of
commercial sexual exploitation.
PLAN International – <strong>India</strong>
Plan <strong>India</strong> 17 is a child-centred development organization that aims to promote
child rights and improve the quality of life of vulnerable children. Plan works
in 13 States in <strong>India</strong> and has directly impacted lives of over a million children
and their families since 1979. The organization’s child centred community
development interventions focus on child protection and child participation,
children in difficult circumstances, education, HIV/AIDS awareness, health,
early childhood care and development, water and environment, sanitation,
disaster preparedness, household, economic and social security and community
governance. The focus of Plan and its partners is to ensure that “children in
<strong>India</strong>, especially vulnerable children, live in a safe and enabling environment
where their rights are recognized, realized and respected”.
Plan <strong>India</strong> is a childcentred
development
organization that aims
to promote child rights
and improve the quality
of life of vulnerable
children.
Child Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Prevention
Anti Child Trafficking and HIV/AIDS prevention project is being implemented
in 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh. The project aims to reduce incidences of
child trafficking and HIV/AIDS in 300 communities by 2009 by focusing on the
critical areas of nutrition, health, education, testing, psychosocial counselling,
vocational training and skill development of the vulnerable groups such as
traditional women in prostitution like Dommara, Mathammas, Joginis and
others, Dalits, migrant labourers, women and girl child workers in the tobacco
processing industry, fisher folk, tribal population, domestic servants, traditional
handloom weavers and rural artisans.
Prajwala
Prajwala is an anti-trafficking organization based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Prajwala started by establishing a small transition centre for the prevention of
second-generation prostitution, but today deals with all aspects of
anti-trafficking.
As an organizational policy, Prajwala 18 believes in working with survivors of
trafficking who are full time partners in the day-to-day functioning of the
Rehabilitation through Prajwala Industries
Social and economic re-integration through self-employment opportunities,
enterprise building, and employment in Amul Pizza Parlours, as house keeping
staff members and as Home Nurses and also in the collective enterprise of
Prajwala Industries is one of the core areas of success for Prajwala. Girls are
being gainfully employed and are successfully sustaining their livelihood
through sheer hard work and effective social networking.
17 To learn more about PLAN International, <strong>India</strong> please visit http://www.planindia.org/new_plan/index.html
18 More information on PRAJWALA is available at www.prajwalaindia.org
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