Best Practices

Apne Aap initiates and builds community based collectives/Self Help Groups of trafficked girls and women who seek to end their own oppression and prevent their sisters from being trafficked. Apne Aap has developed a ‘bottom up’ model where groups of girls and women empower themselves to become champions to end sex trafficking. They have begun to map their own and their community’s course to fight trafficking.
 

It is a girls- and women-centred solution that transforms girls and women in the community from victim to leader, through their own collectives. Apne Aap through its 3L model of Learnings, Livelihood and Legal Protection provides these self help groups of women and girls livelihoods options and links them to markets. Learnings programmes include education to daughters of prostitutes who are at risk of being trafficked, adult literacy programmes to the women. Legal cells are set up to assist in filing FIRs (First Information Report) with the police and to provide legal literacy programmes to educate the community on their rights. Apne Aap’s self-help groups seek not to simply mitigate the circumstances of sex-trafficking but end sex-trafficking.
 

Our model and methodology have been recognized as a best practice within the sector of anti-trafficking and featured in studies and publications.