Female victims of domestic violence in India will be empowered through physical and emotional support, as well as vocational training.

Human Rights > Helpline for Women: Project Specific Corpus Fund

Helpline for Women: Project Specific Corpus Fund

Summary

The project assists at least 600 women in distress through 24 hour telephone rescue services, and provides them shelter, medical aid, repatriation, legal and other long term support. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $53,091 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Often women and children of the urban slums fall victims to adversaries like abuse, rape, suppression, humiliation, mental trauma and accidents. Languishing under poverty they can’t raise their voice for any help. Such miseries are traced out by the 24 hour helpline services of the project and immediate steps taken to rescue, provide shelter, medical aid and repatriate them by counseling. They are given vocational training and education for ensuring their self-dependency.

Activities

We provide medical and legal help, immediately rescue and refer women to short stay homes, locate missing women with the help of police, counsel and guide them, inform and make them aware of available services for protection.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $53,091

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $53,091. The original project funding goal was $53,091.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will rescue & assist 600 women in distress and crisis annually with emergency shelter, medical, counseling and legal aid & advice and will help them till they are repatriated or rehabilitated.

Project Message

Permit voiceless women to be heard. Imbue them with confidence and self worth to face societal pressures with courage. Recognize the inherent talent of women as managers, leaders and peace makers.
- Mrs. Inderjit Khurana, Secretary of the Organization

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Inderjit Khurana,
Secretary
3731-A, Sriram Nagar, Samantarapur, Old Town
Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751002
India
91-674-2340746
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Ruchika Social Service Organisation
3731-A, Sriram Nagar,
Samantarapur, Old Town,
Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751002
India
91-674-2532611
http://www.ruchika.org

Learn more about Ruchika Social Service Organisation and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 02, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 31, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Helpline rescues girls and puts them on the track to success

By Sombit Mishra - Helpline donor and Ruchika enthusiast, July 02, 2007 06:56 PM

This footage -- which I took on my recent trip to Orissa, India -- captures women and young girls that have been rescued from dangerous conditions. Like all of us, these women desire a better life where they can learn, grow, and share in what the world has to offer. The Helpline project recently received full funding through GlobalGiving, which will enable the project leaders to continue their great work for three more years.

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