Anti-Human Trafficking & Women Empowerment Schemes

Human trafficking is the key focus of JMJSSS.

Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and the arms trade across the globe. 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. Human trafficking is one of the major problems in India.

Initiatives undertaken by the sisters of JMJ for Protection and Rehabilitation of Children and Women are aided by the Holy Family Foundation.

• JMJ UJJAWALA(Radiant home) HOME, NUMBUR:
   

  A Comprehensive Scheme for Prevention of trafficking and Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Victims of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation with specific focus on the special needs of these victims.

  JMJ Social Service Society, Guntur Province has accepted to become an implementing agency of this Scheme at JMJ UJJAWALA HOME, Nambur ever since 2010. The aim of this component is to control and change the traffickers mind for future sustainability provision.

  Rehabilitation: The major component we focus upon here is rehabilitation of the victims.

  • Setting up of Protective and Rehabilitative (P&R) Home: We have set up our JMJ Ujjawala home with all facilities to protect and rehabitate the inmates.
  • Basic Amenities: - We provide basic amenities such as food, clothing and other items of personal use.
  • Medical Care - This Scheme provides Doctor’s fee, cost of medicines, hospitalization, appropriate linkages to de-addiction centres. Since the victims of trafficking undergo immense psychological trauma, professional counselling services are provided through a qualified clinical psychologist and psychiatrist
  • . Legal Aid: - As victims are the main witnesses against the trafficker/ perpetrator, or to claim their right to property, marital rights, divorce, maintenance and custody of children, they need to be provided with legal aid which would include court work and documentation relating to the victims court cases.
  • Education - As a large proportion of the rescued victims are children, they need to be inducted in to the formal or open school system, for which some expenditure on text-books, notebooks, stationary, school uniform and other incidental expenses are incurred and met by the home.
• JMJ SWADHAR HOME, TENALI :Swadhar home (A Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances) functions with the following objectives:
  • To cater to the primary need of shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment and care of women in distress and those who are without any social and economic support.
  • To enable them to regain their emotional strength that gets hampered due to their encounter with unfortunate circumstances.
  • To provide them with legal aid and guidance to enable them to take steps for their readjustment in family/society.
  • To rehabilitate them economically and emotionally.
  • To act as a support system that understands and meets various requirements of women in distress.
  • To enable them to start their life afresh with dignity and conviction.
• JMJ PRAJWALA (Eternal Flame) HOME:Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation is the most dehumanizing trade. A victim in flesh trade is subjected to innumerable physical, sexual and psychological tortures, which leaves irreversible scars in the mind. In the anti-trafficking sector Prajwala’s preventive interventions largely focus on the community at large.
  • Provide value-based holistic education for children vulnerable to be inducted into prostitution.
  • Provide counselling to children and girls at risk and give opportunity for overall personality development and dignified livelihood options.
  • Involve mothers and community members in development of the children.