Partners

The following organizations have been IOM’s constant partners in its journey towards accomplishing the various project objectives.

NGO PARTNERS:

ACTION FOR RURAL TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICE (ARTS): ARTS has been working in the Integrated Rural Development Program and the Technical Resource Center at the grass root level since 1993. ARTS strives for the upliftment of the marginalized tribal communities in Srikakulam and Vijayanagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh. A dairy initiative involving 24 participants, food outlets and an enterprise involved in surface ornamentation and garment retailing have been started under IOM’s ERTV Project in association with ARTS.

ARTS
137, Govind Nagar, Behind Abhuyadaya Degree College, Srikakulam - 1
Andhra Pradesh.
Phone: +91.8942.220153 / 278232
Email: artssanyasirao@yahoo.com
Website: www.artsindia.org


ANKURAM: Ankuram is a developmental organization based in Hyderabad and is the State Convenor of the Campaign Against Child Trafficking (CACT). Ankuram has been working with children, adolescents, young girls, victims of violence and abuse and running shelters and drop in centres to provide for their basic care, health and education.

With the support of IOM, Ankuram has initiated two food kiosks – Kafe Khushi outlets at Necklace Road and the Mandal Revenue Office premises respectively under the ERST project. In addition, Ankuram has been quite successful in exploring employment options alongside enterprise opportunities for the participants of the project. The young ladies have been placed as customer sales executives, security guards, helpers and nurses etc. as a part of these initiatives.

Ankuram
# 12-13-309, Street No. 19,
Tarnaka, Secunderabad - 500 017
Phone: +91.40.27017446 / 65505077
Email: ankuram@yahoo.com
Website: www.ankuram.org

ANYAY RAHIT ZINDAGI (ARZ): ARZ was conceived in 1997 by a small but committed group of development professionals from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, with the idea of social work interventions in the area of crime with persons who have committed crimes, have been victims of crime or those who are vulnerable to either. ARZ started its first project in 1998 in Goa on issues connected with trafficking of humans for the purposes of prostitution. ARZ works not only with the victims of prostitution but also with those who are perpetrators of prostitution. ARZ works with the children of prostitutes, children of other persons and youth residing in that area, members of certain tribes, shelter-less and unsupported women and girls, and wives/widows of HIV positive men. ARZ has set up ‘SWIFT WASH’ a huge laundry processing unit to meet the needs of the ever burgeoning hospitality sector of Goa, thus providing livelihood options to 41 survivors of trafficking in Goa.

ARZ,
MHN: 27/1, Behind Anthony Bar,
Baina Beach, Baina,
Vasco Da Gama, Goa – 403 802.
Phone: +91.832.2519951 / 2515353
Email: arz@sancharnet.in


AREA NETWORKING AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES (ANANDI): ANANDI is a women’s organization that works with women of the marginalized sections of rural and tribal communities of Gujarat. Since its inception in 1995, ANANDI has adopted a rights perspective to create a demand and understanding of women’s concerns. AIF support has enabled 1,300 women from marginalized communities to get engaged in various livelihood options, through skill trainings and other handholding exercises done by ANANDI to set up enterprises. IOM partnered with ANANDI to organize Entrepreneurship Development Training to the Livelihood Recovery Project’s beneficiaries and also for implementing other project activities.

ANANDI,
Archana Park,
Street No. 2,
Opp. Panchayat Nagar Bus Stand,
University Road, Rajkot – 360 005.
Phone: +91.281.2586091 / 2589671
Email: anandiad1@sancharnet.in
Website: www.anandiindia.net


Community Association for Rural Development (CARD): CARD was established in 1990 to equip the oppressed and marginalized people, to bring solidarity among them in achieving sustainable development and to strive for the basic human rights and social justice. CARD’s activities are based in Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. The NGO is currently running a Swadhar home, thereby providing institutional care and support specifically for survivors of trafficking. IOM supported CARD in involving participants in dairy activities, food outlets and petty businesses under the ERTV project.

Community Association for Rural Development,
Mannarpolur, Sullurpet Mandal,
Nellore - 534 121.
Phone: +91.8623.241423 / 241613


ODANADI SEVA SAMSTHE (OSS): Odanadi is a leading and powerful voice advocating the cause of women in prostitution in the state of Karnataka and has been running a relentless campaign to expose and curb the flesh trade. With IOM, OSS has pioneered the setting up of a member based organization named Maanavi Seva Sangha which is an association of survivors of trafficking who have been economically rehabilitated through various enterprises like food parlour, all-women travel agency, emporium and a beauty parlour. ‘Maanavi’ has provided these girls with the platform to learn, share, access resources and expertise and to mainstream their lives.

Odanadi Seva Samsthe,
15/2B Gowthama Nagar, SRS Colony, Hootagalli,
Belawadi Post, Mysore – 570 018.
Karnataka
Phone: +91.821.2402155 / 2403371
Email: odanadisevatrust@yahoo.com


PARYAVARAN VIKAS KENDRA (PVK): PVK established itself in Maliya after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake. While the organization initially provided earthquake relief, PVK quickly transitioned to addressing wider community needs that existed before the disaster. PVK supported IOM in the social mobilization process during the execution of the shelter construction activities and was also a partner in execution of other project activities under the Livelihood Recovery Project.

PVK,
F-283, Vrundavan,
Street No. 2,
Ravi Ratna Park,
150 ft Ring Road, Rajkot – 360 005.
Phone: +91.281.2583927 / 2579959
Email: greenearth2@rediffmail.com


PRAJWALA: Prajwala is a developmental organization involved in raising awareness about human trafficking in India, rescuing and supporting trafficked women and children and ultimately working to end human trafficking itself. Prajwala is consciously making efforts to integrate the citizen sector, the government and the business sector to jointly arrange protective and rehabilitative services for women who have been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation. Prajwala’s multi-pronged approach intervenes in all aspects of the human trafficking chain: Awareness, Prevention, Rescue, Health and Education, and Rehabilitation and Reintegration.
IOM’s pilot CT initiative of setting up two Amul pizza parlours in Hyderabad was carried out in partnership with Prajwala. Subsequently, a Book binding training cum production centre was also set up which is currently being run as Prajwala Enterprises (including other vocations such as printing, lamination, welding, fabrication, furniture making) involving more than 50 survivors of trafficking.

Prajwala
20-4-34, III Floor,
Behind Charminar Bus Stand,
Charminar, Hyderabad.
Phone: +91.40.24510290 / 24410813
Email: praj-2010@eth.net; info@prajwalaindia.org
Website: www.prajwalaindia.org

PRATIBANDHI KALYAN KENDRA (PKK): PKK stands for an inclusive journey and struggle against a self centered and indifferent society for searching, demonstrating and promoting an alternative and more humane model of education, community and development. PKK has been working with differently abled children and youth and preparing them to face the challenges of the real world with ease. At the instance of the Department of Women and Child Welfare – Orissa, PKK partnered with IOM to set up food kiosks and a training cum production centre (jute and paper bag stitching) for survivors of trafficking as a part of the ERST Project.

PKK,
Kamalalaya, 481 - B,
Nageswar Tangi,
Bhubaneswar – 751 002.
Orissa
Phone: +91.674.2434425
E-mail: pkkb@vsnl.net
Website: www.pkkindia.org

PRAYAS: Founded in 1997, PRAYAS is a non-profit organization involved in the community-based rehabilitation of the most vulnerable survivors of the earthquake in Anjar and Rapar Talukas of Kutch. In Jhabua, PRAYAS is working with, micro credit institutions, watershed programme, income generating activities & local self-governess. The primary objective is to provide inputs for building up community-based local organizations to promote long-term sustainability. Under IOM’s Livelihood Recovery Project, Prayas was involved in mobilizing social support for regulating the shelter construction activities and in implementation of other project components.

PRAYAS-ANJAR
60 Maruti nagar, Near Yadav Nagar,
Meghpar Road, Kutch – 370 110.
Gujarat
Phone: +91.2836.246493
E-mail: mail@prayas4development.org
Website: www.prayas4development.org

PRAYAS INSTITUTE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE (PRAYAS): Prayas was established to provide emergency services for reorganizing and rebuilding the lives of the children affected by the devastating fire that rocked Jahangirpuri, one of the biggest slums in Delhi in the year 1988. Since then, Prayas has come a long way and today is reaching out to approximately 50,000 children in 7 states of India. Besides providing shelter, home and clothing to the underprivileged children, Prays is focussed on unearthing and addressing the root causes behind the children’s sufferings and is channelizing all its efforts for their holistic development. Prayas strongly promotes livelihood along with a package of integrated programmes for marginalized children, youth and women. Nearly 10 Sanchay-Prayas retail food outlets have been set up in Delhi under the aegis of IOM’s ERTV project. IOM again partnered with Prayas under the ERST project to set up a laundry unit and train a group of young boys and girls to be professional beauticians and masseurs.

PRAYAS,
59, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
New Delhi – 110 062.
Phone: +91.11.29051103 / 29955505 / 29956244
Email: prayas@del6.vsnl.net.in
Website: www.prayasonline.org

PRERANA: Prerana started working in the red-light areas of Mumbai in 1986 with a view to end second generation trafficking of children of red-light area-based women who were Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking (VOCSET). It strives to protect and reestablish the rights and dignity of these women based on a very clear "rights perspective". Today, Prerana is active on most dimensions of the anti CSE&T work including protection, prevention, vigilance, rescue, post rescue operation, victim care services, prosecution, empowerment of victim women, advocacy & lobbying, legal, policy level and administrative reforms, rehabilitation & social reintegration, generating social awareness, research, documentation, sensitization & training of special functionaries, networking, and capacity building of fellow organization. With the support of IOM, a Fashion garment construction unit has already been set up and a bakery unit is in the process of being established for ensuring the rehabilitation of survivors of trafficking under the ERST project.

PRERANA
7th Lane, Kamathipura Municipal School,
Shuklaji Street,
Kamathipura, Mumbai - 400 008.
Phone: +91.22.23053166 / 23007266
Email: prerana_ppp@vsnl.com; pppatkar@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
Website: www.prerana.org

SAMERTH CHARITABLE TRUST: Since its inception in 1992, SAMERTH has worked towards participating in the alternative developmental thinking and practices in various forums. Over the years, the organization has taken due course in terms of programmatic areas and has intervened in the field of community health, disaster preparedness, outreach programmes in educational areas, peace building work, natural resource management, land based and skill based livelihood promotion and access to economic and social rights of the poor. As a part of the Livelihood Recovery project, IOM had partnered with Samerth for facilitating the micro-credit assistance and vocational training PROGRAMMES.

SAMERTH
Q-402, Shrinandnagar – II,
Vejalpur, Ahmedabad –380 051.
Gujarat.
Phone: +91.79.26829004
Email Address: samerth@satyam.net.in
Website: www.samerth.org


SANLAAP: Sanlaap is a development organization providing services of care, protection and shelter to survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking and to children of women in prostitution. It is an important policy-influencing organization in the South Asian Region which works towards correction of social imbalances, which manifest in gender injustice and violence against women and children. As a part of its CT interventions, IOM partnered with Sanlaap to set up a Café X-press kiosk, food making unit and to train 30 participants in fashion garment construction under the ERTV project.

SANLAAP 11/3G, Old Ballygunge, 2nd Lane,
Kolkata - 700 019.
Phone: +91.33.22895375 / 27021287
E-mail: sanlaap@giascl01.vsnl.net.in; sanlaap@rediffmail.com
Website: www.sanlaapindia.org

SETU, CENTRE FOR SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION: Since it was founded in 1982, Setu has been working with dispossessed, marginalized and minority communities in rural and urban Gujarat. Setu helps empowers these peoples through mobilization, organization, and training, while developing local leadership and institutions that can address local issues and challenges. Setu partnered with IOM to carry out the Livelihood Recovery Project’s activities and more importantly conducted an impact study of the health interventions undertaken by IOM as a part of this project.

Setu: Centre for Social Knowledge and Action
1, Punyashlok, Near Liberty Bus stop, University Road, Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad 380 009
Phone: +91.79.2656 0751
Email: setumail@wilnetonline.net

SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND TRAINING (SFDRT): SFDRT is a non profitable organization started by Mrs. Shyamala Ashok who is involved at the gross root level and has extensive experience in the field of medical and psychiatric social work and activities related to STD/HIV/AIDS in particular. SFDRT specializes in working with high risk group including women in prostitution, survivors of trafficking, people living with HIV/AIDS, vulnerable children, adolescents, youth, truck drivers, migrant workers, workers in the film industry and prisoners. With the support of IOM, SFDRT had set up a mobile restaurant, ‘Pondy Ruchi’ and also involved participants in dairy activities under the ERTV project.

SFDRT,
34, Chetty Street,
Pondicherry - 605 001.
Phone: +91.413.2220058 / 2349284
Email: sfdrt@dataone.in

SOCIETY TO HELP RURAL EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION (STHREE): STHREE is committed to empower, educate and rehabilitate the sexually exploited and distressed category of children and women in the Anantapur and Kadapa districts of Andhra Pradesh. Founded in the year 2000, STHREE has been relentlessly working to combat trafficking of children and women from the rural villages of Andhra Pradesh.
Shringar Beauty parlour and crafts bazaar, Tasty Bites food outlets and a huge high end fashion garment production utility centre are the economic opportunities that were created for the participants with the IOM-STHREE collaboration under the ERTV project.

STHREE,
Indira Nagar Colony,
Opp. Excise Police Station,
Kadiri, Anantpur – 515 591
Andhra Pradesh Phone: +91.8494.226463
Email: hemabedi_pkd@yahoo.co.in

UTTHAN: Utthan Development Action Planning Team is a registered public trust and society, working on natural resource management and development activities in resource-poor region of Gujarat with a gender perspective. The focus of Utthan's interventions are on gender empowerment, livelihood security and conflict transformation within the wider framework of promoting gender equality and equity, human rights and improving the quality of life for those on the margins of society. Utthan was involved in the micro-credit assistance program and the training of the health-volunteers undertaken by IOM under the Livelihood Recovery Project.

Utthan
36,Chitrakut Twins,
B/h Management Enclave,
Nehrupark, Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad – 380 015.
Gujarat
Phone: +91.79.26751023
E-mail: utthan@icenet.net
Website: www.utthangujarat.org


VASAVYA MAHILA MANDALI (VMM): It is a non-profit, non - governmental, non-political, secular, voluntary organization working for the all-round development of women, children and youth. With its headquarters based in Vijayawada, Vasavya's activities reach all over Andhra Pradesh. During the last three decades under the dynamic leadership of Mrs.Chennupati Vidya, Former Member of Parliament, VMM has grown as a pioneer service organization. Today VMM is extending services to more than 2,000,000 people, spread over rural and urban Andhra Pradesh.
IOM has set up three training cum production units – Bakery unit, Kalamkari Printing unit and a Book-binding unit in the course of the implementation of the ERTV and the ERST projects respectively, thus reaching out to approximately 75 survivors of trafficking in association with VMM.

VMM
Benz Circle,
Vijayawada – 520 010.
Andhra Pradesh
Phone: +91.866.2489784 / 2470 966
Email: vasavyamm@sify.com; vasavya@cityonlines.com
Website: www.vasavya.com


YUSUF MEHERALLY CENTRE (YMC): YMC is an organization named after the eminent freedom fighter Shri Yusuf Meherally. It has been working in Kutch since 1996 with the objective of reaching a sustainable level of development among the rural population that would enable them to stand at par with the urban population. IOM partnered with YMC under its Livelihood Recovery Project for construction of shelters, micro-credit assistance and vocational training to migrant salt workers and their families in Mundra block.

Yusuf Meherally Centre
Bhadreshwer, Mundra Road,
Bhuj, Kutch – 370 411.
Gujarat
Contact: +91.2838.282376
E-mail: yumeherbad@rediffmail.com
Website: www.yusufmeherally.org