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to give them a valued chance to live respectable life as law-abiding citizens.
Assisting victims to prosecute their traffickers and the persons involved in their
sexual abuse and repatriation services are also provided by the organization.
Saarthak
Saarthak 20 , a voluntary organization based in Delhi, focuses on mental health
in the community and has worked with the mission of providing support to
the victims of trafficking in South Asia. The aim has been to facilitate victims
of trafficking and other vulnerable groups to trafficking through creating
mental health friendly resources and processes. The mental health training and
interventions have been designed within a rights based framework ensuring
autonomy, dignity and choice as defining fundamentals.
Saarthak has done this through:
1. Developing minimum standards of care for rescue, repatriation,
rehabilitation and re-integration.
2. Mainstreaming mental health frameworks into the agenda of
Anti-trafficking service providers including the criminal justice system,
voluntary organizations providing care and protection and livelihoods,
voluntary organizations working in post-tsunami scenario to prevent
trafficking, government schemes and policies.
3. Creating mental health capacity building resources by developing a
certificate level and a diploma level training programmes for mental
health interventions for survivors of trafficking. Nearly 1,000 people from
50 organizations in South Asia have been trained through the Saarthak
training programmes.
4. Developing tools and processes to assure the quality of care and protection.
5. Creating service delivery models for mental health interventions using a
cost effective mobile mental health team. Nearly a thousand survivors have
been met and supported.
6. Ongoing documentation of mental health needs of survivors of trafficking
and gender based violence.
7. Developing self-help tools for recovery of survivors of violence and trafficking.
Saarthak, a voluntary
organization based in
Delhi, focuses on mental
health in the community
and has worked with
the mission of providing
support to the victims of
trafficking in South Asia.
Saarthak is working to seek support to institutionalize the training programmes
so as to ensure a sustainable rights-based anti-trafficking response.
Sanlaap
Founded in 1987, Sanlaap is a non-government of organization. Sanlaap works
to combat human trafficking and prevent second generation prostitution. Over
time, Sanlaap has evolved as a pioneering organization to holistically address
the issue of trafficking in persons, particularly for the purpose of commercial
sexual exploitation. The organization has broadened its horizon to encompass
“prevention and protection” initiatives as well. Sanlaap 21 walks through the life
of a “victim” to her being a “survivor” of trafficking through the mechanism of
institutional care and protection. The journey thus starts from the time of her
20 To learn more about SAARTHAK please write to saarthakmembers@yahoo.co.in
21 For more information on SANLAAP and its initiatives, please visit www.sanlaapindia.org
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