Research
Red-light Area Mapping: Falkland Road & Vashi-Turbhe
Over the years, Prerana has witnessed significant changes in the RLAs. Since 2011, Prerana began routinely mapping the RLAs of Kamathipura, Falkland Rd. and Vashi Turbhe. Through this exercise, the team of Prerana’s social workers has been able to identify the changing structures and dynamics of the RLAs. Understanding this is crucial for planning welfare and developmental services and strategies. The annual RLA mapping is undertaken in the months of February and March.
Through this document, we aim to share an update on the current number of brothels, services, and organizations functioning in the RLAs of Falkland Rd. and Vashi-Turbhe with a reference to data collected in 2016.
Inter-sectoral Analysis of the Migrant Backward Communities and Induction of their Children in Beggary in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai
Prerana’s Sanmaan project works closely with children found begging and rescued by the police. This research by Sanmaan, examines the responses of the State, the current role, and gaps within the Juvenile Justice System and the factors affecting the role of the community in preventing or facilitating the induction of the children in beggary.
Field Visit to Bangladesh
The patterns in cross-border trafficking keep changing. As an organisation working on anti-human trafficking initiatives for over three decades, we felt it was important to enhance our understanding of the current situation and trends.
Sanmaan’s Community Mapping 2021
Project Sanmaan aims to enable children found begging on the streets to enjoy their right to wellbeing and dignity and break the intergenerational cycle of backwardness and begging in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Sanmaan’s interventions are currently in 3 communities – Ghansoli, Chembur and Sathe Nagar where we work with communities and families to prevent children to be pushed into beggary . This exercise of mapping the 3 communities aims to understand the communities in-depth – starting from their demographics, the existing resources and accessibility to them. The Community Mapping 2021 Document has captured the changes in the community and its demographics along with capturing interventions brought in by the team in the community from the previous mapping done in 2020.
Unfolding Principle of Individualization in Social Case Work
The document captures the experiences of our counselor Ms. Shruti Chatterjee of the significance of the principle of individualization. It aims to help Social Case Workers to understand the principle of individualization while working with children within the juvenile justice system.
Unsettled Forever
The importance ascribed to the Individual Care Plan comes from the recognition that every child must have a specific plan for her/his rehabilitation based on the case history, circumstances and individual needs of each child. These plans are to be prepared with the ultimate aim of the child being rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society. The overall objective of this training manual is to build the capacity of various stakeholders engaged with the juvenile justice system to design and understand how to deliver an Individual Care Plan as under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015.
Documentation of “Sanmaan” Model
The importance ascribed to the Individual Care Plan comes from the recognition that every child must have a specific plan for her/his rehabilitation based on the case history, circumstances and individual needs of each child. These plans are to be prepared with the ultimate aim of the child being rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society. The overall objective of this training manual is to build the capacity of various stakeholders engaged with the juvenile justice system to design and understand how to deliver an Individual Care Plan as under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015.
Individual Care Plan: Training Manual and Guidelines
The importance ascribed to the Individual Care Plan comes from the recognition that every child must have a specific plan for her/his rehabilitation based on the case history, circumstances and individual needs of each child. These plans are to be prepared with the ultimate aim of the child being rehabilitated and reintegrated into the society. The overall objective of this training manual is to build the capacity of various stakeholders engaged with the juvenile justice system to design and understand how to deliver an Individual Care Plan as under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015.
Rapid Assessment Survey – III
Aarambh project team working on Strengthening Child Protection Systems in Maharashtra has been working with the families of child victims of sexual offences living in Mumbai city, suburban, Thane, Raigad, Solapur and Nashik districts of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in partnership with UNICEF Maharashtra since 2015. This is the 3rd edition of the Rapid Assessment Survey to find out and focus on the living conditions of these families of child victims of sexual offences.
The 03 Models of Care
This document is a consolidated brief of all the three original models of care for victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking (CSE&T).
It includes highlights from the previously released documents on Institutional Care Model, Restoration Care Model and Aftercare Care Model.
Models of Care: The Institutional Model
In this document about the Institutional Care Model, we share our learnings from running and managing a Children’s Home – Naunihal, for 21 years.
Models of Care: The Restoration Model
In this document about the Restoration Care Model, we hope to throw some light on pre and post restoration processes to ensure the well-being of children and their safe reintegration into the society.
Models of Care: The Aftercare Model
The Aftercare Care Model document highlights the need for extended care and support provisions even after children turn 18, and formally exit the child protection system.
Red-light Area Mapping 2021: Vashi-Turbhe
Through this document, we aim to share an update on the current number of brothels, services, and organizations functioning in the RLA of Vashi-Turbhe in 2020-21.
Red-light Area Mapping 2021: Kamathipura
Through this document, we aim to share an update on the current number of brothels, services, and organizations functioning in the RLA of Kamathipura in 2020-21.
Red-light Area Mapping 2021: Falkland Road
Through this document, we aim to share an update on the current number of brothels, services, and organizations functioning in the RLA of Falkland Rd. in 2020-21.
Community Mapping (Project Sanmaan): Ghansoli, Chembur & Sathe Nagar
Project Sanmaan aims to enable children found begging on the streets to enjoy their right to wellbeing and dignity and break the intergenerational cycle of backwardness and begging in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Sanmaan’s interventions are currently in 3 communities – Ghansoli, Chembur and Sathe Nagar where children found begging reside. This exercise of mapping the 3 communities aims to understand the communities in-depth – starting from their demographics to their accessibility to resources.
Preliminary inferences from Primary Data on girl child victims rescued from the sex trade in Mumbai
This study aims to understand the overall situation of the victims of commercial sexual exploitation by analysing some key variables like age at the time of rescue, states of origin, etc. We have gathered the data through our field interventions with these girls.
COVID19 and Human Trafficking: Desk Review of News Reports on Human Trafficking
To understand this situation of rescues of victims of sex trafficking amid COVID-19, Prerana’s Anti-Trafficking Center conducted a Desk Review of news articles that reported on incidences of the rescue of trafficked persons between May 2020 – October 2020
COVID-19 and Families of CSE Victims : A Rapid Assessment Study
Our Post Rescue Operations team works with children who have been rescued from commercial sexual exploitation. The team’s area of intervention includes working with the families of the victims to further the rehabilitation in the best interest of the child. These families belong to low-income groups and depend on daily wages. Many of them also work in the informal sector. The lockdown significantly affected the financial condition of these families, along with affecting their access to food, health care, and social security schemes. This is a Rapid Assessment Study (RAS) of the situation of the children and their families who the Post Rescue Operations team works with.
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers’ Families on the Streets : A Rapid Assessment Study
Our Sanmaan team works with families who have migrated from their native places to Mumbai or Navi Mumbai.
These families are dependent on daily wages. Some of them also work in the informal sector.With the lockdown, every income-generating activity of these families came to a halt. With no transportation, mobility of these families was also affected. This is a Rapid Assessment Study (RAS) of the situation of the children and their families
whomSanmaan works with.
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Rules, 2020: A Comparative Look
The Prerana team created and worked on a comparison table of the new rules and old rules. This particular document highlights the new changes based on the stakeholder responsible for the execution of the same. In the attempt to potentially ensure a robust child protection system, these documents have been put together so that the relevant stakeholders can easily identify changes and their role in it.
COVID-19 and the Red-Light Areas : A Rapid Assessment Study
This is a Rapid Assessment Study of the situation of the Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking living in the Kamathipura Red-Light Area and the adjoining Falkland Road of Mumbai. It also covers those who were earlier living in the aforementioned areas but had shifted their stay in the last 10 years and still come to these RLAs to solicit.
Assessment Of Education Support Program – June 2018
The Education Support Program (ESP) was prompted as a result of one of Prerana’s priorities for intervention, namely ending intergenerational trafficking. The ESP was born out of the organization’s commitment to the children’s right to education.
HIV/AIDS and Illness in Red-Light Area – Match and Mismatch of Health Services
This document explores how the formerly sex trafficked and prostituted, but now rehabilitated, women perceived health and health services.
Revisiting the Evil Social Custom of Sex Trafficking in North-West India
To build a contemporary understanding of these communities (mainly the Nat and Bedia communities), the ATC Team visited Rajasthan in 2018. The study was approached through casework interventions based on Prerana’s past experiences of working with victims from the communities.
NUTRITION IMPACT REPORT 2017
In Prerana’s 30 years of working with women and children in the red-light areas of Mumbai, we have witnessed varied instances where women
Distribution of Children in Prerana’s Night Care Centers as per Gender, Place of Origin & Chronology (2006-2016)
In 1988, Prerana introduced the world to the first Night Care Center (NCC) offering mothers a safe place to protect their children from the dangers
Understanding Human Trafficking in the Current Context
Among the various theoretical options available to understand the situation of human trafficking, some are impracticable while some
Assessment Of Education Support Program – June 2018
Education is an important tool in the contemporary world in order to lead a dignified life, ensure socio-economic development and open doors
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Of The Internet – The Bot In The Lives Of Children From Mumbai’s Red-light Areas
In the first of our two-part series on “Open House” of children in Prerana, we bring to you what children of victims of commercial sexual exploitation
Busting The Myth: Mobile & (Im)mobility In Lives Of Prostituted Women In Red-Light Areas
With technological advancement in leaps and bounds, cheaper internet and free calls, one appears to practice
Too Many Names But No Identity – The Reality Of Children In Red-Light Areas
For victims of commercial sexual exploitation, loss of identity goes way beyond a layman’s
understanding.