Women & Children Protection
Women and Children Protection against Abuse & Violence – Project
The aim of the program is to aware community about the consequences of women and children abuse or unsafe migration. Provide them information about the ways to practice safe migration and hence achieve dignified human living. Therefore, the intervention of the project is to take every possible step for prevention to mitigate in implementing the project with the best efforts within our reach. As the project is unfolding vulnerable community to healthier life, we look forward to capacitate to reduce their vulnerability with positive attitude towards the prevention of the women and child abuse, which could be sustainable effect in the society.
The community women slowly start mitigating the widespread abuse and violence. The active participation of community women and children and other stakeholders adds extra value to diminishing the abuse and violence of women & children. The project activities work as changing agent towards protection of women and child against abuse & violence and health behavioral ignorance. Altogether 35 Community Vigilance Committee (CVC), 35 Adolescent Girls Group (AGG) and 35 Children Parliament have formed and strengthened in project operation area to build up capacity and access benefits as preventative remedial of above issues towards achieving goal and objective of the project.
Objective
- To reduce women and child abuse & violence in Basanti and Gosoba Block in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
- To formation and strengthen of Community Vigilance Committee (CVC) & Adolescent Girls Group (AGG) for protection of women and child.
- Linkage the victimized women and child for access rehabilitation.
Project Description
| Project Location : | Blocks: Basanti & Gosaba |
| Gram Panchayets : | 8 Gram Panchayets. (Amjhara, Charavidya, Chunokhali, & Fulmalanchya GP Under Basanti Block and Biprodaspur, Pathankhali, Kachukhali & Sambhunagar Under Gosaba Block) |
| Villages : | 35 |
| Total staff : | Coordinator: 1, Supervisor 1: Accountant:1, Animators: 5 |
| Beneficiaries : | Disadvantaged women, children and adolescent girls & boys. |
Activities
| Strengthening of Community Vigilance Committee (CVC) | Training for strengthening of Community Vigilance Committee |
| Formation and Strengthening of Adolescent Girls Group AGG | Training for strengthening of Adolescent Girls Group |
| Formation and Strengthening of Children Parliament | Training for Strengthening of Children Parliament. |
| School Sensitization Program | Linkage meetings among CVC, AGG, Village leaders. police station, home, Vocational training center for counseling and rehabilitation of Victims. |
| Community Awareness Programme (Organize Rallies and Street corners on women & children protection) | Mass awareness on women and children Protection & anti human Trafficking in Fair & Festivals |
| Linkage meeting among CVC members, PRI and other Government Departments to access govt. scheme | Village level CVC meeting for different social issues. |
| Training on Beautician course | Monthly staff meeting. |
Achievements
- Altogether 35 CVCs consisting of 875 people; 35 AGGs consisting 874 adolescent Girls and 35 children Parliament consisting of 912 Children have been formed and functioning well.
- 37 Underage marriages have been stopped and 83 Domestic violence stopped as amicable settlement through Community Vigilance Community (CVC).
- 42 school dropout children mainstreamed as enrolled in local schools and 9 Adolescents Trafficked girls and boys are recovered.
- Altogether 155 Adolescent girls and young women received Beautician training course out of which 68 women starts earning to add some income for their better livelihood.
