What We Do

Apne Aap prevents sex trafficking by building the capacity of girls, women and children in red-light areas and slums to get access to education, livelihoods other than prostitution, and safe housing by organizing themselves in small co-operatives. It works in Bihar, Delhi, Maharashtra and West Bengal. Apne Aap means self help in Hindi.

• We have put 854 children from red-light areas into school.
• We have established 67 small business cooperatives of women survivors of prostitution.
• We have trained 1,909 police officers on victim-friendly investigation in human trafficking cases.
• We are campaigning to change the Indian Anti-trafficking law for the severe punishment of traffickers and buyers and capacity building programmes for victims and survivors. 
• We are on the Steering Committee for Women and Children for the 11th Five Year Plan of the Planning Commission of Government of India
• We are researching the connection between caste based discrimination and prostitution for the National Commission for Women, India