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| Goal |
The goal of the project is to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate trafficked and vulnerable girl children. |
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| Objectives |
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To reduce the incidence of human trafficking as well as harassment of girls in vulnerable situations. |
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To provide inclusive education with vocational training’ |
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To improve awareness among girl children concerning social issues and preparedness for the outcomes. |
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Self-sustainability and personality improvement. |
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| Activities |
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Mainstreaming the rescued child by giving formal education by running a rescue girl home |
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Health and hygiene awareness by conducting regular medical consultations |
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Counselling to the teenage girls, giving non-formal education. |
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Strengthening vigilance committees and alternate income generation programmes |
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Manasu Girl Care Centre is started in 2008 at Visakhapatnam city (Near to Simhachalam) with aim to rescue and rehabilitate girls exploited in different spheres of the society. It could achieve success in these years of operation. We could unify 51 children and another 21 children are at home. In total we could make change in 72 lives. All this has been possible because of the commitment and dedication showed by the team. The treatment the centre was taking good care and of the children, providing them counselling and education. The outreach staff responds 24 hours to any emergency and travelled to very interiors of the country to unify the child back to home. |
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| Rescue |
We have rescued 24 nos. of girl children during these years. All these girls are rescued from vulnerable situation. The situation of the girl children were such that after rescue by the police there was no safe place for her to return to. So, we provided shelter to these children at MANASU. Girls rescued are from the districts of Nellore, Kadapa, Srikakulam districts. Some girls are also come from adjoining state Orissa. All these children under the age group of 14 to 18 years. Immediate rescue helped these children to get into a safe/non-hazardous environment. |
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| Rehabilitation |
Rehabilitation is very critical activity in MANASU programme. We provided shelter to the rescued children from different parts of the state. We have provided rehabilitation to 21 girl children at MANASU during these years. Children from different caste and creeds, religions and different vulnerable situations are provided rehabilitation. They are provided food, shelter and other accessories during their stay at the centre. Children from the age group of 5 years to 15 years are under this category. |
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| Unification |
Under the unification activity, we send back to merge the rescued girl children with their families. We have unified 21 children in the centre. We counsel the parents as well as children during unification. We also provided follow up visits to their homes for assessing their situation and progress. |
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| Counselling |
Counselling is an important and need based activity for the rescued children. Rescued children are under mental pressure and some have suicide tendencies. Regular counselling is provided these children to stable their mental condition and change their negative attitude towards life. We provided 157 counselling sessions during the year. |
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| Job opportunities/placements |
We made liaisioning with different employing organisations for finding job opportunities for the youth girls staying at the centre. Four placements could find during the year. All these girls are working in Computer and Production firms. |
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| Education |
20 girls are continuing their formal education in the private schools near by the centre. They regularly go to school by school bus. All the girls did well in the 2012 April final exams and are promoted to next class. The younger girls got very good marks and the older girls did alright. Given the circumstances they come from and the lack of proper previous education it is indeed an achievement and we hope they perform well every year. Below are the marks of children in the recent quarterly exams and now they are preparing for half yearly exams. Currently 22 children are attending school. |
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