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organization. Interestingly, about 60 percent of the organization comprises
survivors of trafficking themselves not just as mere staff members at the lowest
rung but also as decision makers and programme monitors.
Adopting a rights based
approach, Prerana
initiated every kind of
intervention that was
needed to protect the
children and women
victims of commercial
sexual exploitation and
trafficking (CSE&T)
Prerana
The anti-trafficking intervention of Prerana, a non-profit making voluntary
organization started in 1986 right in the midst of Kamathipura, one of the
largest red light districts of the Asian continent and a dreaded one. Adopting
a rights-based approach, Prerana initiated every kind of intervention that
was needed to protect the children and women victims of commercial sexual
exploitation and trafficking (CSE&T) and those directly, inescapably, and closely
exposed to the danger of CSE&T. Prerana globally pioneered the intervention
‘Elimination of Second Generation Trafficking’ (ESGT), piloted it successfully,
replicated, standardized, and mainstreamed it. The component programmes
of ESGT namely the Night Care Centre, Institutional Placement Programme,
Educational Support Programme were adopted by the Government of <strong>India</strong> in
1998 in its first Plan of Action with due recognition. PRERANA believes that the
model has undisputed global replicability.
Today, directly as a as a result of PRERANA’S intervention thousands of children
born to prostituted women in the red light districts who would have otherwise
been prostituted, or made to pimp, peddle drugs, arrange for blue films and
run errands for the comfort of the customers are completing higher standards
of formal education on a record number besides discussing child rights in their
collective EKTA (lit. Unity).
PRERANA completed training of over 1000 police officers on behalf of
UNODC in 2007-08 with significant success.
PRERANA believed in socializing its initiatives and made untiring efforts to
disseminate its success stories and help many more partners to undertake ESGT.
The ESGT Model is picking up very fast in <strong>India</strong>. PRERANA’S intervention to
rescue the child victims of CSE stops only at successful social reintegration
immediately preceded by economic rehabilitation.
Rescue Foundation
Rescue Foundation 19 operates in the State of Maharashtra but has also spread its
work in other parts of Western <strong>India</strong>. Rescue Foundation runs a protective home
(shelter) for the rescued girls. Their work focuses on eradication of trafficking;
rescue of minors from trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation; running of
the protective home with facilities such as counselling, training (vocational and
life-skills), legal assistance, health care services (physical and psychological)
and consequent repatriation. The organization not only provides pragmatic,
practical and informed solutions to the victims to make better choices for their
future but also vocational guidance and counselling to rehabilitate them and
19 For more information about the organization, please visit www.rescuefoundation.net
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