In the current situation, casework has not stopped because the social worker is not on the field. Instead, it has transitioned to keep assisting its clients remotely. The story highlights how casework is evolving to assist clients, despite the distance.

In February 2020, Rashmi Taylor, Prachi Naik and Flarantxa Pereira visited the Budhwar Peth red-light area. The visit was conducted to follow up on a few children Prerana’s Institutional Placement Program works with. This blog is an attempt as sharing Rashmi’s learnings and thoughts from her first visit to Budhwar Peth and Swadhar’s Mohar project.

As a common perception, ‘grief’ is always used as a synonym to bereavement. However, the current COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown is altering the way grief is seen and experienced. At the present time, parents and caregivers are not only grieving the loss of their jobs and financial security but also the loss of their autonomy, personal space, daily interactions, and missed milestones. For many of the families who Prerana works with, these losses are acutely felt, even if they might be difficult to articulate. Here are a few stories that illustrate this thought.

During the ATC Teams visit to Garstin Bastion Road (G.B.Road), they met and interacted with Ms. Lalitha S.A and the team at SPID-SMS who shared their insights of the red-light area in Delhi.
This blog is an attempt at sharing Flarantxa’s findings and thoughts as well as noting the similarities and differences seen in the RLAs of Mumbai (primarily Kamathipura and Falkland Rd) and G.B.Road Delhi.

We recently interviewed Aaheli Gupta, a Senior Project Co-ordinator at our Anti-Trafficking Center who has been working on creating linkages among our beneficiaries and the various organizations working to provide relief during COVID-19 along with collaborations with various stakeholders.