Overview – Current Conditions

 Human Trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and the arms trade across the globe. According to the definition of the United Nations – “trafficking is any activity leading to recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or a position of vulnerability”.

Close to 80% of the human trafficking across the world is done for sexual exploitation and the rest is for bonded labour and India is considered as the hub of this crime in Asia. As per the statistics of the government – in every eight minutes a child goes missing in our country. In 2011 about 35,000 children were reported missing and more than 11,000 out of these were from West Bengal.

Further, it is assumed that only 30% of the total cases are reported, so the actual number is pretty high. Human trafficking is one of the major problems in India. Till date no concrete study has been conducted so far to know the exact number of trafficked kids in India. The New York Times has reported on the widespread problem of human trafficking in India especially in the state of Jharkhand. Also in the report it is stated that young girls are trafficked from neighboring Nepal to India.

 As per the data from Home Ministry, 1379 cases of human trafficking were reported from Karnataka in the period of four years, in Tamil Nadu the number is 2,244 whereas Andhra Pradesh has 2,157 cases of human trafficking. Recently 300 bonded labourers in Bangalore have been rescued. According to an article in Firstpost, Delhi is the hub of human trafficking trade in India and half of the world’s slaves live in India.

 Approximately 75-80% of human trafficking is for sex. There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history. There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world who are victims of human trafficking.

Human trafficking not only involves sex and labor, but people are also trafficked for organ harvesting. A human trafficker can earn 20 times what he or she paid for a girl. Provided the girl was not physically brutalized to the point of ruining her beauty, the pimp could sell her again for a greater price because he had trained her and broken her spirit, which saves future buyers the hassle. A 2010 study in India found that, on average, a single sex slave earned her pimp at least 250,000 rupees a year.

Although human trafficking is often a hidden crime and accurate statistics are difficult to obtain, researchers estimate that more than 80% of trafficking victims are female. Over 50% of human trafficking victims are children. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises because it holds relatively low risk with high profit potential. Criminal organizations are increasingly attracted to human trafficking because, unlike drugs, humans can be sold repeatedly.

The specific problem that this project will address is that of human trafficking.  There are two specific areas within this.  One is the issue regarding poor quality of aftercare in Mumbai which can frequently result in those that have been rescued being re-trafficked back into prostitution. 

• Young Girl children periodically rescued by the police and law enforcement agencies. They are then interned in safe shelters run by both government and non-government agencies.
•  Their health has been compromised due to multiple causative factors ranging from anemia, developmental impairments, poor hygiene, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, violence, torture and destroying of their dignity/family alienation etc.,
• The existing facilities currently are in much need of a comprehensive holistic intervention that would enable them to lead independent productive lives.
•  Alternatives to live a life of other than sexual exploitation/prostitution are not clearly defined and delivered to these individuals to help them begin a road to recovery and freedom.
•  It has been evidenced that providing holistic care will result in a reduction of those being re-trafficked or continue in a life of sexual slavery and exploitation.
•  Chaiim Foundation aims to rehabilitate 30 survivors
• Our Vision is rehabilitating women survivors of human trafficking and promoting the welfare of the marginalized, the poor, disadvantaged and exploited irrespective of religion, caste or gender. We achieve the same by giving attention to Rehabilitation and Restoration.

Our Mission is to Rehabilitate and Restore Survivors of human Trafficking (Women Empowerment)

Problem statement-

Women as early from 10 t0 18 years are trafficked, sold, raped, encounter sexual violence of the highest order, physically threatened and confined in places where there is no hope for rescue. These girls are lured and promised a better life in the guise of a job, marriage and a better standard of living. When they are finally rescued by the police or by private investigators, their life is a wreck and spirit badly bruised with no form of an identity. Maharashtra ranks second to Kolkata in human trafficking. When we encountered this problem or rather a vicious demon, Chaiim Foundation decided to be a catalyst for change to see trafficked survivors restored and rehabilitated back to community and life.

The proposed approach (type of intervention)

Chaiim Foundation only deals with restoration of trafficked survivors after they have been rescued by the Govt and Private organizations/NGO’s

Project Location- Borivali West, Mumbai – 400103

Project Objectives- 

• To equip and train 10 women survivors of human trafficking in the age group 18 to 25 years in the field of basic life skills, education, vocational training, counseling, job readiness and housing.
• To help these survivors after a period of 3 years to get reintegrated into community.

Funding Period - 3 years

Methods of achieving the objective-

• We already have a few trained staff to achieve the same.
• Liaising with individuals, corporates and vocational trainers in aiding , helping and teaching the same

Projected Costs- 

1st year Running Costs – Rs. 38,00,00/-

• Through Counselling, they will be healed of their trauma and have a restored sense of value and worth.
• Job Readiness : Career Jobs in relative fields of training provided.
• Education: which is an ongoing process will be ensured. Educated and trained so that they may have the potential of gainful futures
• Restored sense of being as a result of the various interventions.
• Life Skills : A sense of purpose and destiny as a result of our interventions.(life Skills)
• Appropriate guidance in the pursuit of livelihood options.
• Health Care : Health Care ensured with better provided facilities to regain Increased health and well being.
• Ability to cope with normal demands of life.
• Vocationally trained to be economically independent by saving money in the bank
• Legal counsel and access to basic rights as a citizen.
• Housing : will be given and house standards learnt 
• Around 60 trafficked survivors will also be impacted through training programs and life skills at various NGO’s and Govt. aftercare homes. From the maze of training, 10 survivors will do the training at Chaiim Foundation.