| Greetings
from Rescue Foundation (Charitable Foundation India)!!
Rescue Foundation (is a social organization
based Mumbai (India), which
has been working for the Rescue, Rehabilitation,
Reintegration and Empowerment of
trafficked women and children. Currently, we take
care of 75 rescued children with the intention of
protecting them from the clutches of the sex-trade...
Rescue Foundation has until December 2006,
organized and undertaken 50 rescue-operations. Over 700 girls
in and out of Mumbai & Pune have been rescued, and the perpetrators
of this traffic have been brought to book.
Rescue Foundation has emerged as a leading
and powerful voice advocating the cause of trafficked
women/girls in India. Rescue Foundation
rescued over 700 girls, most of them minors, from
the clutches of the flesh traffickers in various
parts of India, Many girls have been rehabilitated
with an alternative livelihood into mainstream society.
The younger children (usually children
of sex workers and orphans picked off the streets) are provided
informal education and vocational training programs.
These children also reside at the center
and are provided food and other facilities. The activities
of Rescue Foundation have been recognized
& appreciated by the state and the central governments.
Purpose / Goals
- To rescue
children and girls from
the clutches of traffickers and to expose
the organized networks of trafficking.
- Rehabilitation
and reintegration of rescued children
and girls.
- Awareness,
training and policy making process related to anti-trafficking
campaign in the source areas of the selected districts of
India & Nepal.
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price of success is dedication, determination, hard work and
unrelenting devotion
Universal Declaration of Human Rights called for freedom of
thought, profession, organization, religion and creed. Each
and every individual has a right to self-determination and
self-respect but the situation is contrary in the case of
trafficked girls and women sold for forced prostitution.
It is a moral responsibility of us, better endowed & educated
to assist these unfortunate girls and women
who fall pray to the anti-social elements. |
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President of Rescue Foundation,
Mrs. Triveni Acharya has received the prestigious award
of 'Women of
Peace from Women's Peacepower Foundation, Florida,
U.S.A. Three women in the world received this award. One from
Afghanistan, one from Netherlands and one Mrs. Acharya from
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Too
many children, girls and women live in conditions unworthy
of their dignity as human beings, as daughters of God and the mothers
for the future society. Rescuing trafficked unfortunate
girls/women from the evil clutches of brothel keepers is
a very ominous and pious duty of the well endowed society.
Unfortunately our society does not give due respect to girls/women
and vested interests use them as tools for profit making by trafficking
for prostitution and it is the responsibility of
the well endowed and educated conscious people like us to rescue
them and resurrect them as respected citizens. The present situation
is very disheartening and we have to continuously struggle with
the uneducated, emotional, frank, guileless, simple-hearted girls
and women, even counsel them profusely for days before we repatriate
them and teach them the means to earn their livelihood with respect
and counsel them in such a way that they do not repeat such mistake
in life and they never get cheated by any man in future. They seem
to lose their entire identity as humans just because some antisocial
elements in and around the country are overcome by greed and lose
all dimensions of humanity. The situation is not only exploitive
but also destructive in our society .All efforts have to be made
to arrest such inhuman situation.
OUR
PRESIDENT - MRS. TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA
Mrs. Triveni Balkrishna Acharya has been a senior journalist from
1991 to 2005 with Mumbai Samachar, a reputed daily newspaper.
She has been elected as President of 'Rescue Foundation'
a non-profit non-government registered foundation.
As President of the foundation, she is not only involved
in managing the affairs of the NGO efficiently but also
takes a lead in conducting raids personally on the brothels in red
light area of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bhiwandi, Turbhe and Pune.
She is committed to protecting & promoting human rights of women
& girls by working to eradicate trafficking in India.
She has established a very intricate network with police, informers,
past victims and colleague NGOs etc. So far we have successfully
rescued and repatriated more than 600 to 800 girls/women
For this humanitarian endeavor, she has received donations from
Europe in the past and have utilized the funds entirely for the
rescue, counseling, training them for self-sufficiency,
providing health care and legal consultation to the unfortunate
girls who are sold to the red light areas.
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THANKS A LOT TO ALL OUR WELL WISHERS AND SUPPORTERS WHO HAVE
KINDLY SUPPORTED US BY CONTRIBUTIONS WITHOUT WHOM OUR SOCIAL
& HUMANITARIAN
WORK WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE: Major
supporters are:
1. Bono Direkt-hilfe
e.v.
2. Mr. Heinz Reiter
3. Stiching Kinderpostzege
4. Nepal-Hilfe Aachen E.V.
5. Mr. Jim Greenbaum
6. MIVA
7. Chance Swiss
8. Asha Nepal
9. Stiching Peoples Trust " |
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Her
commitment to the humanitarian cause is so strong that she attends
to the rescue work herself which requires tremendous courage
on her part even at risk to her life while raiding the brothels.
She has also shown personal respect towards the work of rescuing,
rehabilitating & repatriating these unfortunate, underprivileged
segment of our society by contributing to the expenditure in
lakhs of Rupees from her personal belongings for the sake of
these unfortunate girls.
Her qualities as an individual are exceptional. The
undeterred courage and total commitment to the cause of humanity
coupled with efficient management of the staff members to
actively operate multifarious fields like investigation, rescue,
protective home, training for self-reliance, health care
including HIV/AIDS for victims, legal assistance for bringing
traffickers and brothel keepers to law and
repatriation requires a very delicate yet courageous
approach towards a very major problem in our society.
She
handles all very diverse activities very efficiently indeed.
At times, she is discussing investigation conducted with her
staff & informers & then raiding the brothels ruthlessly
with police. At another time, she is emotionally counseling
with psycho-social element, the girls rescued from
the forced prostitution and giving them hope of integrating
with respectable society.
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She
also operates a protective home, licensed by the Government of Maharashtra
to provide free shelter, nutrition, training and legal
assistance to the girls rescued by her. She is nominated
on the advisory board for child & women welfare by
the Central as well as State Govt. of Maharashtra. In appreciation
of her social work, she has received Kutchh Shakti Award in 1997.
She is also received the award of Women of Peace from Women's
PeacePower Foundation INC, U.S.A.
Her work as President of Rescue Foundation is being
very explicitly appreciated in numerous articles published in magazines
abroad.
Even back home, she has been felicitated by many articles in press.
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