Apne Aap Women’s Worldwide
Rs. 999,000 awarded over one year to Apne Aap Women’s Worldwide
Young girls in India’s poorly developed areas face the risk of being trafficked to large cities for prostitution. This is a particular problem in the districts along the Indian border with Nepal, which are India’s least developed and where trafficking of girls from Nepal is also rampant. The trafficking industry is mafia-controlled, and working against this is both difficult and risky. Apne Aap is an anti-trafficking NGO that works with commercial sex workers in red light areas in Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi, and also works in the town of Forbesganj in Araria district, Bihar.
We made a grant for setting up ‘safe spaces’ for 100 adolescent girls in red light areas of Forbesganj. These provide basic education, legal literacy and vocational training so that the girls are aware of their rights and have alternatives ahead of them other then prostitution.
Promoting rights: Women’s rights that exist under the Indian constitution are not always observed. Asserting those rights can be risky but girls’ education is an important requirement.
