The Stories of Sahas
For the last 20 years Jan Sahas has been working intensively
in 98 districts across 13
states in India. Our work is centred around the most excluded social groups— migrant workers, manual scavengers,
survivors of gender-based violence, trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation; landless households, single
women, malnourished children and adolescent girls.
Our core focus lies in two areas— safe migration and
workers’ protection; and
prevention of sexual violence against women and children. To provide holistic and comprehensive support to the
communities we work with, we have developed cross-cutting interventions on livelihood and skill development,
legal support, mental health, land and property rights, early childhood care and education and incubation of
community-based organizations. Our ‘PR-3’ model on Prevention, Response, Rehabilitation and Reform in system to
ensure our engagement at all levels with a bottoms-up approach from grassroots to policy level.
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Jan Sahas has grown from 1 district and 12 volunteers in 2000, to 98 districts across 13 states in
India.
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sahas' intervention
With
our experience of working at the grassroots for over two decades, we have developed six cross-cutting
approaches to strengthen our work on safe migration and workers’ protection; and prevention of sexual
violence against women and children.
Key
Thematic Information
Prevention of Sexual Violence against Women and
Children
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Sexual violence against women and children
21,000+
survivors of rape and sexual violence are gaining
support for access to justice and rehabilitation
6,000+
girls enabled to leave caste-based commercial
sexual exploitation
7,000+
women saved from trafficking
₹4 crore+
compensation received by survivors from the
government
Safe Migration & Worker Protection
46,000+
women enabled to leave the inhuman practice of
manual scavenging
6,800
women enabled to break free from bonded labour and
provided rehabilitation support
66,000
migrant labours of Bundelkhand are being
tracked to under safe migration project
our impact
10000
migrant workers tracked through the migration tracking
system
4237
bonded and child
labourers rescued
1572
survivor families
rehabilitated
22096
migrant workers trained
Pre-Departure
718
survivor children have been connected to education
6748
workers have been
connected to entitlements
322
trainings and workshops with government stakeholders
1380
law enforcement officials trained on various labour laws
By the virtue
of being a community led - survivor centric organisation, our approach and strategies have evolved as
our understanding of ground realities of the vulnerable communities has deepened over two decades of our
intervention Our holistic ‘PR-3’ model aims at reducing prevalence and empowering individuals with a
last mile bottoms-up approach to create sustainable impact.
PREVENTION
- Building agency and self confidence of individuals/community
- Campaigns to create awareness and build capacity of at-risk
communities - multimedia, nukkad natak, movies, pamphlets, posters
- Forming alliances with like-minded community members to create an
effective field-based cadre to spread awareness
- Engaging with the Education Department and State Migration Centres to
ensure children attend schools
- Migration Tracking system: This is a method of tracking migrant
workers over a period of time and identifying the workers who are at-risk of forced
labour/trafficking.
response
- 24/7, 365 day toll-free Mazdoor Help-line
- Raid and Rescue operations
- Providing immediate support(Legal, medical, transit shelter, support
in repatriation)
- Support in getting Release Certificates
- Prompt filing of Complaint
- Mental Health overview
Rehabilitation
- Connecting survivors to entitlements
- Ensuring Compensations for the survivors
- Prolonged Counselling Support
- Connecting survivors to education, skill development and livelihood
Reform and Transformation of system
- Trainings, Workshops and Consultations with the government
- Research and Knowledge Management
- Engaging in Policy level advocacy
- Engagement with Private Sector
