Prajwala is a pioneering anti-trafficking organization working on the issue of sex trafficking and sex crime. Established in the year 1996 in South India,
Prajwala has pan India and International operations. Prajwala works on the five pillars of Prevention, Protection, Rescue, Rehabilitation & Reintegration.
As one of the most powerful voices advocating nationally and globally for victim centred services, Prajwala in its 27 years of existence has assisted the
police in rescuing thousands of women and girls from sex slavery and facilitaed their journey to recovery.
Prajwala is both an organisation and an ‘idea’
demonstrating sex slavery is unacceptable and it can be combatted by strategic interventions aimed at preventing at the source, reducing the demand and
protecting victims and survivors
I was just 12 years old when my mother inducted me into prostitution. Our family situation was really bad. My father had abandoned us when I was just 7 years old. My mother was looking after me and my two siblings all alone. One day in a stove accident she was badly burnt and our miseries increased....
read moreI am a government doctor. My friends and colleagues think I am an orphan and was brought up in a orphanage. The truth is I was never able to confide to anyone that I was sold by my own parents when I was 6 years old. When Sunitha Mam rescued me and my sister from a brothel in Delhi we were too young...
read moreMaybe I would have died due to AIDS or perhaps become a sex trafficker myself if I was not saved by Prajwala in a brothel. I was cheated in the name of job and forced into prostitution. My traffickers not only changed my name they also changed my religion. I thought I had no hope when I was rescued....
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