Apne Aap Women Worldwide
(A2W2) began as a community based initiative of women in prostitution in
the Khetwadi/ Kamathipura red light area of Mumbai in 1998. Twenty-two
women in prostitution, who had worked with Emmy award-winning journalist
Ruchira Gupta to make a documentary The Selling of Innocents,
decided to start this organization. It was formally registered as a Trust
in 2002.
In nearly five years
Apne Aap’s membership has spread from Western to Eastern India. It
organizes and supports women and children in Bihar, Delhi, Mahrashtra and
West Bengal. It is headquartered in Kolkata.
It is also registered in New York as
a not-for-profit organization called Apne Aap International which partners
with international organizations like the Coalition Against Trafficking in
Women, Vital Voices and Equality Now to lobby with the United Nations and
other international organizations and agencies against Human Trafficking.
1. Name of the
Organization:
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (A2W2), India Trust
2. Address and Contact
Details of the Organization:
Home office:
Programme
D-56
Anand Niketan
New
Delhi - 110 021
Tel: + 91-11-4601 5940,
Telefax : 91-11-24110056
Email:
apneaap.resourcecentre@gmail.com,
apneaap2003@gmail.com,
ruchiragupta@gmail.com, contact@apneaap.org
website: www.apneaap.org
Contact persons: Ruchira
Gupta (Executive Director) / Vinita Saraf (Managing Trustee) / Anjal
Pathak (Deputy Director)
Accounts
138D Karaya Road,
Kolkata 700 017
Project Offices:
1.
Bihar (Forbesgunge):
Village Rampur (North), Forbesgunge, Bihar
Tel: +91-6455-222215,
+91-9430264556
2. Apne Aap Bihar
Co-ordination office: Jagdish Mill Compound, Ram Manohar Lohia Path,
Forbesgunge, Araria, Bihar – 854318
Tel:+91-11-6455223804,
6455222215
3.
Delhi (Subhash Camp):
66/295-96, Dakshini Puri Extension, New Delhi – 110062
Tel: +91-11-32617268
4. Delhi Resource
Centre: D-56 Anand Niketan, New Delhi
Tel:
+91-11-24110056
5. Kolkata (Kidderpore):
12/H Munshi Gunj Road, Khiderpore, Kolkata
Tel: +91-33-23984934
6. Kolkata (Topsia):
1/A, Biresh Guha Road, Kolkata 700017
Tel:
+91-33-3332943081
7. Mumbai (Bhiwandi):
Near Shubham
Hospital, Khadan Road, Phulenagar, Bhiwandi,
Thane – 421302
Tel:
+91-252-2566874
8. Mumbai (Kamathipura):
Chandramani Budh Vihar Municipal School, 4th Floor, Kamathipura,
13th lane, Mumbai - 8
Tel:
+91-22-23004201
Registered under: Bombay Public Trust Act (No.
E20422-Mumbai)
dated 30 August 2002
FCRA Registration No. 147120726
Bank Indian Overseas Bank
Ballygunge Park Road, Kolkata
Savings Account No. 14536
For donations in Citibank NA
foreign currency 41, Chowringhee Road Branch,
Kolkata
Swift Code: CITIINBX
Account No. 0302594338
All donations exempt under U/S 80G of Income Tax
Act, 1961 vide.
Exemption Certificate no. IT. DIR (E) Mu. N/ 80G/
2672/2004/2004-05
BOARD MEMBERS
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PRESIDENT
Ruchira Gupta
ruchiragupta@gmail.com |
Executive Director of Apne Aap. In a 21 year
career she has won an Emmy for investigative journalism for a
documentary, The Selling of Innocents, on the trafficking of
women and children from Nepal to India, has worked as
Anti-Trafficking Expert for a USAID project based in Washington DC
to end human trafficking all over the world and testified to the US
Senate as an expert witness on human trafficking for the passage of
the Victims Protection Bill. She has served the UN in various
capacities for seven years in Kathmandu, Bangkok, Kosovo, New York
and Iran on issue related to women’s empowerment. As a journalist
she has worked for The Telegraph, The Sunday Observer and the
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MANAGING TRUSTEE
Vinita Saraf
vinita.saraf@gmail.com |
Managing Trustee of Apne Aap is involved with
its work since its formation in the year 2002. She is an interior
designer with a degree from Sheffield School of Interior Design, New
York. In her career as interior designer she has undertaken numbers
of residential and office projects. She also owns a gallery. Now in
the capacity of Managing Trustee, she is in charge of the Office
Administration and the management of the organization on a day to
day basis. She has also initiated sponsorship projects for education
and health and nutrition of needy children in the center. |
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TREASURER
Namrata Surekha
pcl@surekhaproperties.com |
Treasurer and in-charge of the Finances of the
organization. As the director of the A.P Credit Pvt Ltd she has been
involved in the landscape designing of real estate development
projects. She is a member of the Film Censor Board of Eastern
Region, and a trustee of Padatik, an organization for cultural dance
and theatre. |
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Anurag Chaturvedi |
Trustee of Apne Aap is involved with
its work since its formation in the year 2002. He is a veteran
journalist, |
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