APNE AAP WOMEN WORLDWIDE
A world in which no human being is bought or sold
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We aim to protect and prevent young people from sex-trafficking in India and US. We see inter-generational prostitution as a persistent in India and an emerging phenomenon in the US. In India, formerly nomadic group were banned from their own land and traditional livelihoods and forced to be sexually available for landlords and authorities under British colonialism. They were listed as criminal tribes when they resisted. Prostitution was passed from mother to daughter. It still persists today and traffickers find such communitiies easy to target. In the US, traffickers have begun to recruit young people online, through a process called grooming and then keep them in exploitative situations, through a process known as seasoning. The United Nations says human trafficking is the second largest crime in the world and that the majority of the trafficked are below 18, mostly female, and from marginalzed groups.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
To end sex trafficking of women and children
To support women and children trapped in sexual slavery in India, mentor survivor leaders in the US, train University students in anti-trafficking work and support the United Nations with reserach policy and advocacy.
Last Girl First
Education of youth in US school and university campuses on prevention of sexual violence among themselves and The Last Girl in slums and brothels everywhere
United Nations Advocacy
Apne Aap works to providesurvivor-centric research and policy inputs to the United Nations, Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, US Government and other international bodies in the framing of laws and policies against human trafficking.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children who have a sense of their own feelings and an ability to express empathy for others
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who have the ability to use language for expression and to communicate with others
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of stakeholders that report that our organization helped improve their knowledge of child care issues in their community
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of youth who plan to attend post-secondary education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who have the ability to understand and comprehend communication
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of children who have an innate motivation to master and control their environment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of youth who have a positive adult role model
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of youth who volunteer/participate in community service
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of youth who are established in employment/career within five years of graduating from high school
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of youth who demonstrate motivation to learn
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Nomadic people, Victims and oppressed people, Sex workers
Related Program
To end sex trafficking of women and children
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our vision is to create a world in which no girl or woman is bought or sold. Our mission is to end sex-trafficking. Our Goal is to break the cycle of inter-generational prostitution by making sure: 1. Every vulnerable child in a red-light area, born in a brothel or from a nomadic groups labeled as a criminal tribe is in school.
2. Every woman victimised by sex-trafficking finds and exit pathway to freedom with food, livelihood, housing and bank linkages.
3. Equip young adults with skills, tools and knowledge to be able stand up to traffickers. We want them to know they have a self worth defending.
We are inspired by the twin Gandhian principles of : Ahimsa (non-violence) - Resisting violence to the self and to the other. Antodaya (upliftment of the last woman/girl) - Antodaya's last person is the prostituted girl or woman.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We break the cycle of inter-generational prostitution by educating the most vulnerable girls from nomadic groups trapped in inter-generational prostitution and red-light areas.
We enroll women to form a Mandala (circle), bring them to our community centre, start a classroom for their children and train them to gain the ten assets of:
a) a safe space, b) education, c) self-confidence, d) political knowledge, e) government IDs, f) government welfare like food, housing and health care, g) legal support, h) savings and loans, i) income-generating skills and the j) friends in the big Apne Aap Mandala ( self-action circle).
Each step reduces vulnerability and creates an exit pathway out of prostitution.
Based on learnings and insights from survivors we prepare tools, white papers and reccommendations for governments, foundations and international bodies like the United Nations and the US govt's Trafficking in Persons office. With their help we create better laws and policies and get the tools and knowledge out to young people in America and worldwide.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have been in operation since 2001. Our work has directly helped more than twenty thousand women and girls exit prostitution sytems and millions more through the laws and policies that we contributed to. We testified in Indian Parliament for the passage of the Indian trafficking law and in US Senate for the passage of the Trafficking Victim Protection Act. We spoke 42 times in the UN, representing survivor voices and contributed to the establishment of a Trafficking Fund for Survivors and in the passage of the UN Protocol.
During Covid we addressed the most basic needs of the vulnerable population of food, medicine and continued online education. We distributed more than 15 million meals to over 500,000 women and children in red-light areas across India and ensure that children got computers and wi-fi connection to study. We also contribuuted to highlight the vulnerability of children to UNWomen and OSCE by working on a survey with reccommendations for helping children and women transition out of a Covid world.
We were able to do this because we have decades of knowledge and experience and a committed staff doing the grassroots work in India and the policy work in US. We have established a number of partnerships and collaborations over the years that add to our capacity to share and scale up our work.
Based on our track record in impacting individual lives of the most marginalized and vulnerable girls, as well as mentoring more than 200 students to understand and combating human trafficking, we feel we can do more .
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
During Covid we addressed the most basic needs of the vulnerable population of food, medicine and continued online education. We distributed more than 15 million meals to over 500,000 women and children in red-light areas across India and ensure that children got computers and wi-fi connection to study. We also contribuuted to highlight the vulnerability of children to UN Women and OSCE by working on a survey with reccommendations for helping children and women transition out of a Covid world.
Our organization has helped more than 20,000 women and their family members exit systems of prostitution, educated more than a thousand children through school and college, and put over a 100 traffickers in jail. We have also been instrumental in the passage of Section 370 I.P.C India's first anti-trafficking law, as well as the first life imprisonment of a trafficker. Our 10 Asset approach is being replicated and scaled up by others.
We also contributed to the passage of the UN Protocol, the US law against Trafficking and the establishment of the Trafficking Fund for Survivors.
Our progress is easily measured girl by girl and law by law.
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APNE AAP WOMEN WORLDWIDE
Board of directorsas of 11/29/2022
Mr Joung Hoon Lee
President
Term: 2007 - 2025
Ms Francesca Toscano
Ruchira Gupta
Apne Aap International President
Joung Hoon Lee
Farhad Karim
Francesca Toscano
Roberto Toscano
Ion Dela Rive
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