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About us |
Apne Aap Women Worldwide an
initiative to end sex-trafficking. |
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Apne Aap Women Worldwide began as a
community-based initiative of women in prostitution in
the Khetwadi/ Kamatipura 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. Their aim was to lead the
end of their own exploitation and prevent their sisters
from being exploited through sex trafficking.
Message from the Executive Director.
As Apne Aap enters its fourth year there is cause to lebrate.
Its membership has grown to 1208 women and girls trapped in prostitution.
It has six community centers, two resource and training centers and three
re-integration centers in red-light areas and slums in Bihar, Delhi,
Maharashtra and West Bengal. It runs night crèches in two red-light
areas and soup kitchens in four.
Each center has an elected advisory committee of women in prostitution that decides the interventions.
Open mikes with women in prostitution, youth clubs for adolescent girls and Bal Sabhas for children build
and articulate the leadership of the women and children in all Apne Aap’s programming. The collective
strength and individual courage of women has been notable in the struggle for lives and dignity.
Apne Aap members articulate the struggle of women who want the ‘Right not to be a prostitute.We
want different States and governments to address the structural social, economic and political policies that
force women into prostitution.
Ruchira Gupta.
Apne Aap means self-help in Hindi.
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It is registered in New York as a
not-for-profit organization called Apne Aap
International to lobby and partner with international
organizations like the United Nations and the
Coalition against Trafficking in Women on
interventions related to sex trafficking. It is
registered as a not-for-profit organization in the
US. It has partner organizations in Kosovo (Kosovo
Women’s Development Association), Philippines (Remedios
Foundation), Nepal (Maiti Nepal), Bangladesh (Drik),
New York (Safe Horizons) and Washington DC (Vital
Voices).
BOARD MEMBERS
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PRESIDENT
Ruchira Gupta
ruchiragupta@gmail.com
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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 BBC.
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MANAGING TRUSTEE
Vinita
Saraf
vinita.saraf@gmail.com
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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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BOARD MEMBERS - DELHI
BOARD MEMBERS - MUMBAI
BOARD MEMBERS - NEW YORK
Technical Advisors to the Board:
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| Preeta
Bansal |
Former
Solicitor General of the state of New York |
pbansal@post.harvard.edu
Pdbansal2@aol.com |
| Ritu
Bira |
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto |
r.birla@utoronto.ca |
| Shu
Cassen |
TV Producer |
shuyun1@netscapeonline.co.uk |
| Shekhar
Kapoor |
Director Filmmaker |
QuasarFilm@aol.com |
| Sarita
Velani |
Freelance Journalist |
editoriallink@yahoo.com |
| Rabi Ray |
Former Speaker, Indian Parliament |
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| Pramod
Nigudkar |
Deputy
Director, Maharashra District AIDS Control Society |
p_nigudkar@hotmail.com |
| Dr. Purnima Mane |
Chief Fund Portfolio Director, Global Fund for AIDS |
purnima.mane@globalfund.org |
| Mita
Hosali
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Information
officer, Media Division, UN |
hosali@un.org |
| Gisela
Rots |
Research Assistant, Substance Abuse research Unit, Rhode Island Hospital |
gamr19@hotmail.com |
| Eugina
Davies |
Program officer, Remedios, Manila |
gina2_1004@yahoo.com |
| Aurorita
Mendoza |
Health
Promotion and Gender Advisor, UNAIDS |
mendozaa@unaids.org |
| Indrani
Sinha |
Founder, Director, SANLAAP |
indranisinha@satyam.net.in |
| Mark
Connolly |
Program officer, Child Protection, UNICEF |
mconnolly@unicef.org |
| Vipula
Kadri |
Founder of PRIDE
INDIA, SAVE
THE CHILDREN and WISE. |
vkadri@bol.net.in |
| Ambassador
Nancy Rubin |
Former ambassador to the UN for Human Rights |
nhrubin@aol.com |
| Amit
Ukil |
Senior Correspondent, Telegraph |
amitrajit@abpmail.com
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| Anita
Gupta
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Vice President and Director, Global Consumer Group Public Affairs Citigroup, New York |
anita.a.gupta@citicorp.com
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| Anuradha
Koirala
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Founder,
Director, Maiti Nepal |
maitinepal@wlink.com.np
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| Barbara
Crosette |
Journalist/Author |
bcrossette@aol.com
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| Brian
Weinstein |
Professor,
Political Science, Howard University |
leklecha@earthlink.net |
| Grace
Stirling
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Consultant, Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique |
Kiniki2001@msn.com |
| Farhad Karim |
Lawyer, Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett |
f_karim@stblaw.com |
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Networks/Linkages with other organizations
International Networks:
Apne Aap International
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
DRIK, an international media partnership
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking International (ECPAT)
Vital Voices partnership for global change, Chaired by
Senators Clinton and Kassenbaum
People for Children, Chaired by Ricky Martin
National
Network:
ATSEC – Association for Prevention of Trafficking and
Sexual Exploitation of Children
AIDWA – All India Democratic Women’s Association
Member of West
Bengal Campaign Co-coordinating Committee- A National
level committee of Women Organization and Individuals to
observe 16 days Activism Protesting Violence Against
Women and Girls.
Unnati Foundation, Delhi- Delhi center is trying to
collaborate with Unnati Foundation for computer claases.
Apne Aap Women
Worldwide has linkages with Sabuj Sangha, Deepika Social
Welfare Trust, Jabala and Bhoruka, Bhoomika Vihar and
the HIV positive peoples’ organizations in Kolkata viz
KNP+, Enjoy, Swayam, Sparsha, Spandan, Thoughtshop
Foundation and Sanlaap + care and support group and UVCT
in Delhi.
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Our Contact Address and Phone Numbers
Addresses & Contact No. of Regional Centers:
Home Office ( Kolkata): Himadri
Building, 22, Ballygunge Park Road,
Kolkata 700019.
Phone:(91-33-)22834354 or 22812955
Bihar( Forbesgunge): Vill: Rampur(North),
Forbesgunge, Bihar.
Phone:(91-33-)22834354 or 22812955
Delhi (Subhash Camp): 66/295-96, Dakshini Puri Extension,
New Delhi - 110062.
Phone:011-51796708
Delhi Resource Centre: D-56, Anand Niketan,
New Delhi-110 021.
Phone:011-39617628
Kolkata (Kidderpore): 2/6, Nitya Ghosh Street,
Kolkata-700 023.
Phone:033-30984934
Kolkata (Topsia): 1/A, Biresh Guha Road,
Kolkata-700 017.
Phone:033-3332943081
Mumbai (Bhiwandi): Hanuman Tekdi, Rampur, Hasbibi Darga Road,
Bhiwandi, Thane - 421302.
Phone:0252-2566874
Mumbai ( Kamatipura): Chandramani Budh Vihar Muncipal School, 4th Floor, Kamatipura,
13th lane, Mumbai-8.
Phone:022-32015597
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