ONE STEP AT A TIME
Our Four Phased Approach
FIRST PHASE
Field Research & Relationship Building
The team intervention begins with identifying concerns and requirements of women and children by the means of comprehensive field research and surveys. The team focuses on building a strong relationship with the community to establish the foundation of transformation.
Community Building
Mobilization events to set the grounds of friendship & trust. Activities include-movie screenings, festivals celebration, dance performances, theatre and peace walks.
Health and Hygiene Awareness
A wide gap of healthcare needs are regularly met with camps & community participation activities - eye checkups, cleanliness drives, wall painting and brothel painting
Adult Literacy
The Didis are offered classes in Hindi, English language as well as basic arithmetic, to better enable them.
Skill Training
Vocations further become the wind under their wings, with economical skills like - stitching and making crafts, as well as cooking.
Second PHASE
Bridge School At GB Road
At Kat-Katha, education has been the founding medium through which we have been able to make our journey possible since inception. This project gets its name from its very basic purpose to bridge the gap between the community and the society by creating safe learning spaces.
Academic Support
Kids are enrolled in certified schools for optimum exposure, and are supported with mentoring & tutoring thereafter.
Learning Languages
A wide gap of healthcare needs are regularly met with camps & community participation activities - eye checkups, cleanliness drives, wall painting and brothel painting
Extra Curricular Activities
To hone self expression & build confidence, they are offered training in theatre and dance.
Exposure Visits
Outings & trips are offered to expose the kids to fresher outlooks, and to help them meet their role models.
THIRD PHASE
Empower Projects
The purpose is to enable the women & children to practice their choice and lead a meaningful life. Thorough training, exposure and economic support is offered as opportunity for alternative livelihood in the following projects:
1. HeARTshala
Running for over a year, the tailoring project from inside the brothels has enabled 5 women to make heart pins and strings that are available with Craftroots. Furthermore, we directly sell handmade bags, masks and other knick-knacks.
2. Maitri Meals
An FSSAI registered Cloud Kitchen, New Delhi, where 5 women from GB Road, cook and turn financially self reliant. The project aims to become a model for a truly independent venture for the women, ie. learn operations, accounting and other necessary skills to run an independent kitchen.
The effort aims to sustain connecting hearts with healthy meals, all made with love.
Fourth PHASE
Freedom From Forced Sex Work
The final stage is the cusp of freedom, where the Didi or child is all set to take the plunge and live a life free of enforced boundations. And, infact live independent even of Kat-Katha’s support.
1. Financial Independence
The tangible necessities for survival are only truly met when there are sustainable means to livelihood. This sets the foundation of strength as well as the pillar of support to fall back onto.
2. New Life with Dignity & Compassion
Set on the values of compassion, love & kindness, the beneficiaries start a dignified life, made entirely of their own choices.
3. Complete Rehabilitation
The new chapter only really begins when the beneficiary cuts all strings and takes complete ownership. Complete rehabilitation takes a courageous individual as well as external support mechanisms.
Annual Event
Kat Kalrav
Kat-Katha’s flagship event is the annual display of our ultimate dream of making GB Road a street of love for a day. The event celebrated the coming together of those from outside the community and tapped into the lives of the women & children, along with other stakeholders. It’s a beautiful integration of two worlds which has transformed mind-sets, relationships, and lives of several individuals.
For the past seven years, on 15th August, the event also marks Kat-Katha’s birth anniversary. With different themes like Qaid mein Azadi, Rishton Ki Dori, Ekta Ki Udaan, and others, we have been able to bring together over 10,000 people from outside the community at GB Road. At this carnival on the street, one can witness love, bliss & freedom overflowing on the beats of music and tapping of feet.
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The Kalrav Gallery
Project Impact
Key Achievements
With efforts across concerns, we spent the last 9 years impacting over 2200 trafficked women and over 200 children on the GB Road.
120
women employed full-time alternative livelihood. projects: Women-led culinary business “Maitri Meals” and skill-centre “HeARTshala”.
900
Enrolled in Bridge School: Strengthened with a customized curriculum, after-school academic support, dance, theatre, meditation and exposure trips.
8000
Families got relief and resilience support during COVID-19 pandemic
6000
+Women mobilised on personal hygiene and converted from rags to menstrual cups.
50
Children got selected and certified as Ashoka Youth Venture Fellows
50
Children started their own ventures in dance & photography
Project Impact
Key Achievements
With efforts across concerns, we spent the last 9 years impacting over 2200 trafficked women and over 200 children on the GB Road.
- Eleven women employed full-time alternative livelihoods: Five in women-led culinary business “Maitri Meals” in collaboration with PVR Nest and Art of Play, Five in skill-centre “HeARTshala”, one in the bridge school kitchen on the GB Road.
- Five women employed full-time
- 600 women mobilised on personal hygiene, 150 women converted from rags to menstrual cups.
- Twenty Five Kids Enrolled in Bridge School: Strengthened with a customized curriculum, after-school academic support, dance, theatre, meditation and exposure trips.
- Magical Lens: Photography initiative of two kids who were trained in Kat-Katha, now professionally cover events across the country, earn through events, and are now giving back by supporting other kids. They recently launched a Coffee Table Book: Ek Dosti Aisi Bhi, capturing never-seen-before moments of friendship from the red light area.
- Five of our kids got selected and certified as Ashoka Youth Venture Fellows.
- One child has grown to transform his life and become a Defence Service Personnel with the Delhi Govt.
- COVID Relief provided to more than 1000 families living across 85 brothels at GB Road.
120
women employed full-time alternative livelihood. projects: Women-led culinary business “Maitri Meals” and skill-centre “HeARTshala”.
6000
+Women mobilised on personal hygiene and converted from rags to menstrual cups.
900
Enrolled in Bridge School: Strengthened with a customized curriculum, after-school academic support, dance, theatre, meditation and exposure trips.
50
Children got selected and certified as Ashoka Youth Venture Fellows
8000
Families got relief and resilience support during COVID-19 pandemic
10
Children started their own ventures in dance & photography
FIRST PHASE
FIELD RESEARCH & RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
The team intervention begins with identifying concerns by the means of Field Research, and only with the due ‘relationship building’ can one get true insights into the pain-points of the community.
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