National Award for Arz
Arz was selected by The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of ...
Arz is a social work organization committed to combating trafficking of persons for the purpose of sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation in Goa. The organization works both with the victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and also against those who are perpetrators of this crime.
Arz was conceived in 1997 by a group of Development Professionals from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, with the idea of social work interventions in the area of crime with persons who have been victims of commericial sexual exploitation, those who are perpetrators and those who are vulnerable to both.
The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic in India has been largely disruptive. The worst affected due to the pandemic are the sex workers and the victims of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE).
Interventions by Arz (anyay rahit zindagi) to address health and economic crisis caused due to COVID:
The Economic Rehabilitation Programme inititated by Arz in 2006 to cater to the economic empowerment of victims of sexual exploitation led to the setting up of Swift Wash, a fully mechanized laundry unit in Sancoale, Goa for providing employment to the victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Currently, the unit is providing employment to 35 women and girls and 15 boys.
Arz has adopted an holistic approach in the programme, as it was felt that the rehabilitation of the victim alone could not support her in continuing her struggle to live a life free from exploitation. A change has to be brought about in the different stake holders in her life. So, the perpetrators, the spouses of these women, the adult male children and relatives in her family, are also provided rehabilitation under the same programme.
Arz was selected by The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of ...
Arz mobilized media persons from the local neighbourhood newspaper from Vasco...
he women at Swift Wash, took part in a two day Women's Sports...
Swift wash celebrated its third anniversary on September...