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ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 0 7 - 2 0 0 8
A message from our President
Dear friends, I present Apne Aap’s annual report for 2007-2008 with thanks to all of you who made our work possible through generous donations of money and time. Because of you, thousands of women have gotten the chance to start a new life for themselves and their children. I look forward to your continued support of Apne Aap.
Ruchira Gupta President and Founder Apne Aap
Setting women and children free from fear
We work... to provide education, job skills and legal protection to the women and children of India’s red-light districts.
We dream... of a world free of sex-trafficking. With a little help from Apne Aap 52 women now have bank accounts 128 women can now sign their names 1800 is the number of thalis sold by the Mahila (Women’s) Canteen
every
woman free every
child in school
How do we end
sex trafficking
?
Apne Aap works with the most vulnerable members of society using the strategy of prevention, protection and prosecution.
Take a look inside to find out more about our latest Projects, achievements and plans for the future!
We Prevent Apne Aap breaks the cycle of inter-generational prostitution by getting kids in red-light districts out of brothels and into schools. In the past year, we have... - Established a boarding school for 57 children from high-risk areas and red-light districts in Araria, Bihar. - Enrolled 9,500 children of women in prostitution in school and provided them with after school homework help. - Expanded our Night Creches (childcare centers) for children of women in prostitution. - Taught computer skills, crafts, carpentry and English language to members of our youth groups. - Started, Computer Centers for our youth groups in Kolkata and Delhi. - Created classrooms in slums and red-light districts for children who cannot attend school. Sponsor a classroom! Find out how at www.apneaap.org
We Protect For women already trapped in prostitution, Apne Aap offers a way out. Our women’s groups provide support, remedial education and valuable training in job skills. We also educate women about their legal rights and help them stand up to brothel owners, abusive husbands and corrupt law enforcement. In 2007-2008, we... w Trained over 5,000 women survivors of trafficking in small business
management, and helped them manufacture products ranging from incense to cloth bags. w Oversaw the establishment of two soup kitchens by our women’s groups
in Kolkata and Mumbai. These canteens provide hot meals to children and the elderly. w Offered small savings schemes to teach women how to open a bank
account and manage money. w Had three women survivors of trafficking complete literacy classes and sit
for secondary school exams. w Trained women and girls in their legal rights when dealing with police -
how to register a complaint, and who to approach about abuse. w Sent a group of survivors of prostitution to testify for an anti-trafficking
bill before Parliament.
We follow Prosecution Prostitution would not exist without demand. In addition to empowering women, Apne Aap works with law enforcement agencies and legislators to go after those who buy and profit from trafficked women. By raising awareness about trafficking we shift stigma away from the victims and onto those who expoilt them. In the past year, we...
“Why are those who make us suffer not punished?” Meena Sheikh, Bihar
w Continued distributing the Red Light Despatch, a newspaper in Bengali,
Hindi and English written by women in prostitution. w Published Confronting the Demand for Sex-trafficking: A Handbook
for Law-enforcement Agencies and two resource books to educate police about human trafficking. w Trained more than 2,000 police officials in Bihar and Maharashtra to
fight trafficking. w Had our founder and president, Ruchira Gupta, address members of the
United Nations Security Council on the implications of human trafficking on peace and security. w Sent girls from our youth groups to participate in the Eastern Regional
Consultations held by the Ministry of Women & Child and UNICEF on child protection issues. w Received the Abolitionist Award from the House of Lords, UK.
Where we work Apne Aap operates out of centers in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Forbesgunge (Bihar). These ‘Anti-Trafficking Units’ are where we teach classes, hold workshops, provide childcare, serve meals and hold meetings. Not a penny or a minute is wasted. Our centers are busy helping people around the clock! A typical day at our Center in Delhi: 10:30 am - 1:30 pm: The Center is a creche (daycare) for young children. 1.30 - 2.30 pm:
The building converts into a dining hall, where all can get a hot meal.
2.30 - 5.00 pm:
The Center is abuzz with activities and classes for Mahila Mandal (Women’s group) and Kishori Mandal (Youth group) members.
5.30 - 7.30 pm:
Children get out of school and come to Apne Aap for after-school support classes.
7:30 - 10:30 pm:
The lights go out, and the hall is used a night refuge for the children of prostituted women.
From rag-picker to
Business Owner Years ago, Mumtaz Ansari was trapped. During the day, she worked as a rag-picker to feed her children. At night, she came home to an abusive husband in Kolkata’s Topsia slum. With the help of Apne Aap, Mumtaz has transformed her life. Our Topsia women’s group taught her how to run a business and helped her open a bank account. Now she is president of the canteen run by the women’s group in her neighbourhood. Most importantly, the support Mumtaz receives from Apne Aap has given her the confidence to stand up to her husband. He no longer beats her and he does his drinking away from their house and their children. Mumtaz’s canteen is just one of five women’s groups in Topsia. The women of Topsia are working together to attain a better life for themselves and their children. Find out how you can help them. Visit: www.apneaap.org
Looking
Ahead In the next year, we plan to... Organize women into legally reorganized self-help groups with their own bank accounts and businesses. Reach out to the marginalized caste that are particularly vulnerable to trafficking. Develop art resilience programs to raise children’s selfesteem, increase school enrollment and reduce drop-out rates.
“I know my daughter is safe when she goes to the Apne Aap center.” Sonia Khatoon, Kolkata
News from the field Last December, acclaimed women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem visited Apne Aap’s centers in Kolkata and Bihar. Women and girls told her about their attempts to organize and escape prostitution. Thirteen-year-old Juhi Nutt, a member of our Bihar youth group, got the chance to interview Ms. Steinem for Apne Aap’s newsletter the Red Light Despatch. “Talking to your mothers and aunts has taught me so much”, Ms. Steinem told her. “The enslavement of certain women... does not stigmatize them but stigmatizes all of us who let it exist.” “After joining Apne Aap I know how important it is to offer a proper life to my children. Earlier I would have just accepted [prostitution] as my fate.” - Mumtaz Ansari, Kolkata
Aapne Aap thanks Ms. Steinem for donating her time to bring attention to the plight of women trapped in prostitution.
Check out the Red Light Despatch online at www.apneaap.org
“These women have given us the greatest gift - an example of courage - in their search for justice under the most difficult conditions. That means the rest of us can do no less.” Gloria Steinem
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (India) Trust FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2008 A
BALANCE SHEET
I
AMOUNT
SOURCES OF FUND
a)
Capital Fund
36.89
(including corpus fund Rs. 8.14 lacs)
b)
Income & Expenditure
80.85 117.74
II
APPLICATION OF FUND
a)
FIXED ASSETS
b)
CURRENT ASSETS LOANS & ADVANCES
38.35
I
Advances
6.48
II III
Deposits
0.47
Investments
20
IV
Cash & Bank Balances
52.44
Less: Current Liabilities
79.39 NIL
79.39 117.74
(Rupees in Lakhs)
B
INCOME & EXPENDITURE SURPLUS INCOME
AMOUNT
Grant Received
191.42
80.85
Donation Received
NIL*
80.85
Bank Interest
1.16
192.58
Project Expenses
123.38
80.85
Administrative Expenses
48.26
171.64
EXPENDITURE
PROFIT BEFORE TAX
20.94
Less: Current Tax
NIL
PROFIT AFTER TAX
20.94
Add: Balance brought forward from previous year
59.90 38.96
*As per Notes on Accounts (schedule of Balance Sheet) Local Donation was treated as corpus fund.
Finances Application of Funds (2007-2008)
72%
Project Expenses Administrative Expenses
28%
72% Assistance Administration Approach
18% 10%
Thank you, Donors UNIFEM
Sreepriya Exports
Geneva Global
National Commission For women
Oak Foundation
U.N Office on Drugs & Crime-S.B
UNODC
National Human Rights Commission
Charities Aid Foundation
Kolkata INTL Women's Club
Apne Aap International
Manovikas Trust
The Emancipation Network
Birla Academy of Art & Culture
ATSEC (TAHA)
G.K Saraf Public Welfare Trust
Ten Charities INC
Narren N. Mirianni
Action Against Trafficking and
American Consulate General
Sexual Exploitation of Children
Sercal
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK
Jyotirmai Club
Equality now INC Women Action
Cents of Relief
ASSET INDIA FOUNDATION INC
Meenakshi Nevetia
S.K.P. Choudhury
Sridhar Jagannath
Fairfield University
Korean Association in India
International Justice Mission
Sadbhavana Trust
UNICEF
Suman Khaitan
Networks and Linkages Action Aid Action India Asset Azad India Foundation Centre for Community Medicine (AIIMS) Coalition Against Trafficking of Women Dhanpat Virani Directorate of Social Welfare Ekat Groupe Development ICDS Kasturba Mahila Samakhya, Statutory Body under Ministry of HRD Koshi Khetriya Grameen Bank, SBI Mamta Matasya Mewat Shiksha Evam Vikas Sanstha Navjyoti Foundation NIOS PHED Pratham-Mumbai Initiative Rotary Club of Mahanagar SSA State Resource Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia
Board Members Ruchira Gupta Vinita Saraf Namrata Sureka Anurag Chaturvedi
Registered under:
Bombay Public Trust Act (No. E20422-Mumbai) dated 30 August 2002
FCRA Registration No. 147120726 Bank
Indian Overseas Bank Ballygunge Park Road, Kolkata Savings Account No. 14536
For donations in foreign currency
Citibank NA 41, Chowringhee Road Branch, Kolkata Swift Code: CITIINBX Account No. 0302594338
All donations exempt under U/S 80G of Income Tax Act, 1961 vide. Exemption Certificate no. IT. DIR (E) Mu. N/ 80G/ 2672/2004/2004-05
apne aap means
self-help Apne Aap Women Worldwide (A2W2) India Trust HOME OFFICE - Programmes D-56 Anand Niketan, Top Floor, New Delhi 110 021. Tel: 91-11-4601 5940 ACCOUNTS 138D Karaya Road, Kolkata 700 017 PROJECT OFFICES - Forbesgunge, Bihar Village Rampur (North), Forbesgunge, Bihar Tel: +91-6455-222215, +91-9430264556 Forbesgunge Resource Centre Jagdish Mill Compound,Ram Manohar Lohia Path Forbesgunge, Araria, Bihar 854 318 Tel: +91-6455-222215, +91-9304467321 Kolkata (Topsia) 1/A, Biresh Guha Road, Kolkata 700 017 Tel: +91-33-32943081 Kolkata (Kidderpore) 12-H Munshi Gunj Road, Khiderpore, Kolkata Tel: +91-33-23984934 Delhi (Najafgarh) Premnagar, Rewla Khanpur, Najafgarh New Delhi 110 043
Delhi (Subhash Camp) 66/295-96, Dakshini Puri Extension Delhi 110 062 Tel: +91-11-3261 7268 Delhi Resource Centre D-56, Anand Niketan New Delhi 110 021 Tel: +91-11-2411 0056 Mumbai (Bhiwandi) Near Shubham Hospital, Khadan Road Phulenagar, Bhiwandi, Thane 421 302 Tel: +91-22-2566874 Mumbai (Kamathipura) Chandramani Budh Vihar Municipal School 4th Floor, Kamathipura, 13th Lane Mumbai 400 008 Tel: +91-22-23004201
www.apneaap.org
AN APPEAL If you care about the situation of girls and women trapped in prostitution, there are many ways you can help. You can:
Volunteer your time
Sponsor a child
Sponsor a project
Donate All donations are eligible for tax relief under section 80G of the Income Tax Act. Cheques are to be drawn in favour of Apne Aap Women Worldwide payable at Kolkata. Foreign Currency cheques should be mailed to:
Apne Aap Women Worldwide 38D Karaya Road, Classic Apartment, Kolkata 700 017 For more details please contact: Vinita Saraf or Namrata Sureka at apneaap2003@gmail.com