Our Projects
Through focused initiatives, we protect vulnerable communities, ensure timely rescue, and walk alongside survivors as they reclaim their strength and rebuild their lives. Here’s a glimpse into the impact we’re creating across India.
How Do We Operate?
Project Sahay
Empowering survivors to find their voice and strengthening their agency.
From Surviving to Thriving
Thousands of survivors of trafficking are re-trafficked every year in India and remain trapped within the cycle of vulnerability. Poverty and deprivation, lack of employment and educational opportunities, absence of social support systems emerge as hurdles in rehabilitation of the survivors. Moreover, the trauma witnessed by the survivors and the stigma associated with trafficking don’t allow them to have a socially and economically fulfilling life.
Project Sahay centers around empowering survivors of trafficking and at-risk populations through economic and social rehabilitation. Reintegration of survivors into society with dignity and self-respect forms the core of the programme. The short-term goals focus on economic empowerment of women through skill development and livelihood generation, psychosocial healing, providing legal assistance, and equipping them with life skills. The long-term outcomes relate to addressing the social stigma and transformative change to dismantle the menace of trafficking at the community level.
Skill development
Focusing on financial independence through livelihood generation.
Exposure tours
Aimed at providing opportunities for envisioning alternative life choices.
Psychosocial support
Aiding survivors in their healing journey towards recognition of their self-worth and dignity.
Awareness generation
Encouraging action through knowledge on legal and socio-economic rights.
Collaborative partnerships
Working with stakeholders to meet specific needs of each survivor.
Impact Generated
Rehabilitated 60 at-risk girls and survivors through training in Assam. Sponsored 20 girls; more than 1000+ girls have been given support through skill development. 10 survivors are part of the I&DF team now, overseeing the I&DF program and working on the training and rehabilitation of other survivors.
Project Suraksha
Driving systemic change through Awareness generation.
The project focuses on generating conversations with stakeholders within the communities to understand the dangers of trafficking and equipping them with tools to fight the menace. Working with the local stakeholders, the goal of the project is to strengthen response to the cases of trafficking in a holistic manner and adopt a ‘survivor first’ approach. As a part of our model, we conduct sessions in schools and colleges, social welfare departments, and communities vulnerable to trafficking to mould their perspectives about this gendered discrimination and thus prevent trafficking in the long run.
Impact
I&DF has reached out to more than 75,000 people nationwide, conducting 15 outreach sessions in schools, villages, and youth-led village response committees and trafficking clubs. Collaborations with local stakeholders have also been established to address the challenge on a systemic level.
Project Uddhar
Rescuing the vulnerable through dedicated effort.
Around 6000 trafficking victims have been reported in recent years, and the numbers are grossly underreported. Challenges to rescuing trafficking victims range from facing systemic red tape to the nexus of criminals. This project, thus, focuses on proactively rescuing individuals—children, youth, and women from various societal injustices such as prostitution, child marriage, bride trafficking, forced labor, and organ harvesting. This project operates with a specific focus on intercepting and liberating individuals in collaboration with local legal authorities.
Impact
I&DF has rescued more than 100 girls and adults from trafficking.