If you are an organisation that is supporting anti trafficking projects in India, this is what we suggest and appeal to you:

Are you sure the projects you support do not victimise us? Are you funding shelters that force institutionalisation on us? Are you supporting projects wherein we are returned home and then you don’t hear about our rehabilitation status?

Please fund for legal services. We need good lawyers to file for victim compensation. We need lawyers who will challenge rejections of our VC applications by the State Legal Services. Check with your partner whether they are ensuring and helping us to apply for victim compensations.

Please evaluate what kind of mental health services are being provided to us. Are they based on PTSD or other proper assessments? What are the skills of ‘psychosocial counsellors’ who are poorly paid and lack skills in therapy?

Are your prevention projects aiding poverty alleviation, safe migration or strengthening vulnerability mitigation services? Or are they restricted to awareness generation?

ILFAT invites philanthropists, foundations, and impact investors to join us in building a survivor-led movement that addresses the root causes of human trafficking and exploitation.

If you wish to help our movement, please do write to us at [email protected]