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www.empowerpeople.org.in

Empower People

Tel: +91-11-30010211

Email: [email protected]

Address: B 729 Pocket 11,

Jasola Vihar, New Delhi,

Delhi 110025, India.

ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19

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INTRODUCTION

EMPOWER PEOPLE is an organisation singularly focusing on work with

victims and potential victims of human trafficking (bride trafficking to be

precise) and honour crimes against women. The organisation is gradually

taking the form and shape of a social movement, with a set of

community based organisations, activist individuals and groups.

Work first began in 1999 as an educational initiative called Career

Development Corner (CDC) and in 2006 it took the form of EMPOWER

PEOPLE. With a singular focus on empowerment and rescue of victims of

Bride trafficking with an active engagement of religious/ethnic leaders,

community members and other stakeholders, EMPOWER PEOPLE is

known for its work to protect, support and organize trafficked women

and girls, against the vicious cycle of trafficking.

Cause of Bride Trafficking gets support, when world recognizes it!

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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

The organization consists of a core committee

working at the apex. The core committee is known

as the National Executive Committee that deals

with all matters.

At the community level, staff is employed by the

organization and the community-based

organizations working with the survivors and other

women to create awareness and prevent

trafficking.

The organization also has volunteers who are

working at the local level to create a ripple effect.

National Executive

Committee

The Community

Staff and

Committee of

Community

Based

Organizations

Volunteers,

Members and

Associate

Members

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GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE

EMPOWER PEOPLE is currently working in 22 clusters of ten states and

providing online counseling and other required support to domestic

violence victims and youth.

TARGET POPULATION

Indigenous Community, Dalits and minority groups, focusing on women

and children who are always at risk of being trafficked for many

reasons. We have also included the young urban population in our

programs in recent times focusing on their issues.

GOVERNING BODY AND MEMBERSHIP PROFILE

The Governing body of EMPOWER PEOPLE consists of 11 active, highly

experienced and qualified rural development professionals with 6 male

and 5 female members. The 4 governing body members are full-time

active working executives of the organization. Governing body

members are having 5– 15 years of experience in the development

field. 3 of 11 members are having experience in working with

international donor organizations. The geographical experiences of

these members are eastern and northern India. Hands-on experience

of the GB members are from the field of NRM/Watershed management,

Gender Equity, Community Health and Legal aid services, large NGO

program management, financial management, networking and

capacity building.

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High school report card of an

Assamese survivor. She went

missing when she was in 8th

standard and was rescued after

a month of her trafficking from

Kurukshetra.

She was readmitted to the

school in class 9th in Kasturba

Gandhi School in Assam. Her

dream in life is to start an anti-

trafficking organization to help

women and victims.

PROGRAMS

Bride Trafficking

Our aim is to ensure the security and safety of the trafficked women in the

destination area. Regular interactions through workshops, field seminars,

meetings are ensured to make them feel inclusive and accepted in the

community where they live. A constant vigilance is kept to ensure that

they are not trafficked again.

We are spreading awareness among people of the source area like West

Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Bihar through distribution of

pamphlet and campaigns with video and audio clips. It also includes

forming committees at the local level to ensure a safe future of the

vulnerable. The organisation is also working to raise this issue before the

local administration.

(Please visit http://cabt.empowerpeople.org.in/ for more information)

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Female Foeticide / Female Infanticide

We started this program in 2006 in the form of Padayatra for three hundred

kilometers. In India, Haryana is a state having the lowest sex ratio. The

march extended from Jind to Hisar in Haryana and aimed to spread

awareness about issues like female Foeticide and infanticide and inform

people how it was a punishable offense.

Honor Crime

Honour killing is an outcome of socio-economic, cultural and political

factors which have got approval from social morality. The remedy to the

problem is also based on the four above pillars. Under preventive

programs, our organization is exploring civic sense by underlining the

Panchayats and Social Pressure Groups. Our goal is to create civic

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sensitivity against the menace. It is a male-dominated society where every

year thousands of lives are sacrificed irrespective of caste, sub-caste

(Gotras), creed, religion, or the social status of the family. People kill their

own clan or kin for their false “pride” and “honor”. It has become a

graveyard due to all these killings. In all these cases, the castes which

consider themselves regional or very faithful are Jat, Tyagi, Rajput, and

Gujjars. For the past decade, they are going through a phase of Cultural

duality. Their traditional value system is such that it determines their eating

habits, sex and marriage rules, etc. The same is the case with Dalits and

backward caste people. We ensure to create civil sensitivity in the society

in regard to Honor killing. We aim to develop preventive programs by

involving local bodies such as panchayats and social groups to create a

better and sustainable effect.

Domestic Violence (Dowry Harassment, Harassment due to

infertility/failure to produce sons)

The main focus of the

organization is to solely work

for disadvantaged women

regardless of caste, class or

religion. Women are not

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given equal status in society and are prone to social crimes like domestic

violence, trafficking or other types of slavery. The organization ensures to

support the survivor in the best way possible. They provide security, shelter,

counseling, legal support, etc. whichever is required in best regards to

safeguard the rights of the survivor.

Livelihood security

The organization aims

to provide livelihood

security to the survivor

in the best way

possible. This is done to

ensure that the survivor

lives with respect and

becomes self-dependent. This, in turn, empowers the survivor and helps

them be mainstreamed in society.

Sustainable livelihood security of marginalized is secured through

environment-friendly farm and non-farm-based technology

enhancement by ensuring the empowerment process of the marginalized

community.

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Poverty alleviation and self-sustainability

We ensure to make the survivor self-dependent either by mainstreaming

them to complete their left-out education (if the survivor is a young girl) or

helping them to become self-employed. The organization makes sure that

the survivor avails some kind of vocational training in order to sustain their

family. The programs include tailoring, sewing, weaving, pisciculture, bee-

rearing, etc. The main focus of the programs is to empower the women so

that they get equal status in the society and can claim their rights.

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Rehabilitation

The organization’s focus is to integrate the survivor with the society again.

Survivor’s wellbeing and her concerns are our focus of work. The

organization is not the law enforcement agency; its task isn’t to punish the

criminals rather it strongly feels that law enacted falls short of its objective

of rehabilitating and integrating the survivor with the society in a true

sense. This clarity in the work area helps the organization to keep its focus

intact and work for those who truly deserve it. The in-community

rehabilitation process is designed from the survivor’s perspective and aims

towards the assimilation of the survivor in the society while keeping her

identity intact.

STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS

Meetings were regularly organized by the organization to discuss the

present status of education in Mewat and what measures could be taken

to improve the condition. Different stakeholders from the community were

present in meetings. During the meetings, stakeholders regularly expressed

their perspectives on the

present status and

condition of education in

Mewat. A lot of views came

forward which helped to

analyze the situation in

order to take steps in this

regard.

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PROCESS

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FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS

MARCH AGAINST BRIDE TRAFFICKING

The March Against Bride Trafficking was first of its kind of event that was

organized in India at such a huge scale. The total distance covered under

this march was equal to almost 332 marathons starting from Diphu of Karbi

Anlong District of Assam and culminating at Shimla. This social mobilization

drive was just another stepping stone in the decade long journey of

Empower People against the social scourge of Bride Trafficking. The route

taken for this march followed the same route, followed by traffickers both

from India and neighboring states like Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, and

Bangladesh. This route accounts for more than 60% of trafficking done in

India. Through this march, an attempt was made to bring this inhumane

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route to notice of the authorities and sensitize people along this route

about human trafficking. The aim was to build a support mechanism along

this network and to explore, promote and enrich possibilities of repatriation

and rehabilitation of victims within communities.

The march spanned 70 districts of Assam,

West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar

Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana,

Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Along

the way it covered almost 300 schools

and about 600 bazaars/haats (markets).

“Let the girl be girl,

not BRIDE!”

- Slogan of the March

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The march was accompanied by the launch of Anti-Trafficking Helpline in

Assam which was then disseminated throughout the journey to provide a

medium to access help. This helpline was primarily aimed at providing help

to stakeholders to overcome practical challenges faced while handling

cases related to human trafficking. The march-crew consisted of people

from diverse backgrounds like anti-

trafficking activists, legal experts,

psychologists and grassroots

workers who all conducted, various

workshops, seminars, training

sessions and also attempted to

create civic anti-trafficking groups.

The real success of the march was when en route, it enabled

officials/stakeholders to rehabilitate 127 trafficking survivors, by

connecting them to various state and central schemes. It also helped to

trace back the home of 13 survivors. The crew also documented the

journey through field reports containing description of ill practices, case

studies in order to build a comprehensive repository of material about this

less known area of bride trafficking.

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The march was full of interaction with the people, in order to establish a

connection with them. There were so many insights and nuances at every

stage. Each day we used to learn something new, each interaction taught

us about the functioning of this network of trafficking, each tear in

survivor’s eyes was reflective of pain, which s/he went through.

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Inspiration Bead Works, the creative and inspiring venture of

Durga Dingari was channelized by her for raising funds for the

March Against Bride Trafficking (MABT2018) in Philadelphia,

USA. She organized events of jewelry sale on two days, one at

her place and another at her friend’s place apart from running

the campaign on her website:

http://www.inspirationbeadworks.com/. She sent emails, called

people in her circles personally and even sent across

messages on WhatsApp for campaigning for the cause apart

from active post sharing on Facebook and twitter.

WHEN LANGUAGE BECOMES A BARRIER:

A thirteen-year-old trafficking survivor who was

rescued from Rajmandi station by the

organization Mehfooz was misunderstood to

be as a Nigerian and was kept in the Firozabad

child shelter home for four years. The staff of

the shelter lost all hopes in finding the home

town of the survivor. During the March against

Bride Trafficking, Empower People reached

Firozabad. During the inspection, the team was

notified by the staff about the Nigerian child.

During the counseling, the team found out that

the child belonged somewhere from Yelapur

village of North Karnataka and was a member

of the Siddi tribe. Due to the expertise of the

organization the child was able to find its

original home after four long years of demise

and confusion. On further conversation, the

child told his original name and finally.

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MARCH ON FOREST AND LAND RIGHTS

(Jal – Jungle – Jameen Adhikaar Yatra)

The march was organized successfully in the month of February 2019. It

saw a participation of almost 10,000 people including children, men,

women and even senior citizens of tribal communities from 20 districts of

Jharkhand for their right to the Forests and Land. The march, also called

‘Paidal march’ (Marching on foot) began on 20th February from

Columbus ground at Hazaribagh and concluded at Ranchi on 27th

February covering 110 kilometres.

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The objective of the march was to put forth few straightforward demands

aiming to restore and protect the full rights of the tribal communities on

the land, water and other resources of the forests from which they are

being systematically alienated. The main demand was that the people

should be given rights over the

land.

In Jharkhand, there are 16,452

villages with 19,94,387 hectares

of their land covered by

forests. So, the villagers can be

granted forest rights as a

community and 14 lakh

individuals are eligible for

individual forest rights.

We at the National Alliance for peace and justice (NAPJ) organized an 8

days March to help Adivasis in Jharkhand state reclaim the forests, the

rivers, the creeks, the trees, the sand, and the farms. A day after the March

began, the Supreme Court ordered the eviction of the forest dwellers so,

in the charter of demands, we promptly added a demand to the state to

file a petition against the order.

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The other demands are as follows:

"We want our rights to the forest and the forest produce back such as the

fruits, medicines, wood and other produce. It is 12 years since the Forest

Rights Act has been passed but it is still not being implemented properly.

There are more than 32,000 villages in Jharkhand and everyone has their

land and their names recorded. But still what happens is the bullying of

the police and the Government.

In one of our villages, the NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation)

has forcefully taken over 25,000 acres of land and in another village in

Santhal Pargana, where the people were agitating, the police have put

them behind bars under false allegations. It appears like the state and

the law are in favor of the rich and our voices are not heard. The

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Government is not concerned about the forests and the forest dwellers

and now the Supreme Court has said that those whose claims have

been rejected should be evicted from the forests. Where will they go?

There must be lakhs of people in the entire country whose claims have

been rejected.” Now that the Supreme Court has stayed the order of

eviction of forest dwellers, the Tribals can heave a sigh of relief.

The Supreme Court order for eviction came in the wake of some

corporate NGOs and other NGOs funded by corporate, filing a petition.

The corporate sector is anti-ecology and anti-forest dwellers. The state

wants to institutionalize the forests – construct parks and reserves. But we

want the forests to be left as it is – wild and free.

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The Government does not even have any record of the people who

have been displaced for the last 20 years. And this is one of our

concerns. Ideally, each state government should prepare a status report

on Tribals once a year and submit to the central government but this is

not in practice. There is no data with any of the States.

On 28th February, a group of 4 Adivasis leaders accompanied by Ex-MLA

Gautam Sagar Rana and Birendra Kumar met the Governor Draupadi

Murmu and submitted their memorandum of demands. The governor

who is a tribal herself assured that she will take up the matter with the

Central Government and at the state level also she said she will talk to

• Withdrawal of minor civil and criminal cases against the forest dwellers,

• A dedicated Scheduled Tribe Department to be formed to focus on welfare

and rights of the tribal population;

• Land Acquisition Act, 2006 should be enforced and Land Acquisition Act, 2013

should be repealed;

• A state-level Joint committee should be formed for execution of Forest Right

Act, 2006.

• The Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act, and Santal Pargana Tenancy (SPT) Act

should be strictly implemented.

• The common land, the grazing land, the forests, the rivers, rivulets, streams, the

trees, farming land and everything that has been added in the Land Bank should

be freed and not given to capitalists.

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the Forest Minister. She has assured appropriate action, she also said that

government officials are acting on their own behest as government does

care about the rights of people living in the jungle.

Honorable Governor of Jharkhand has constituted an expert advisory

group on people's Rights over forest, water, and forest. A huge victory for

all the people who walked 110 km.

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JAN POSHAN ABHIYAN

POSHAN, Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition was

launched by Honorable Prime Minister on 8th March, 2018 in Jhunjhunu,

Rajasthan. It is a multilevel scheme with a vision to attain malnutrition free

India by 2022. The focus of Abhiyan is to lay emphasis on the nutritional

status of adolescent girls, pregnant women, women, lactating mothers

and children from 0 to 6 years of age.

The primary objective of the Abhiyan is to reduce stunting in identified

Districts of India with the highest malnutrition burden by improving the

utilization of key Aaganwadi Services and improving the quality of

Anganwadi Services delivery.

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As per research, the first 1000 days in the life of the newborn are

considered to be most critical (including nine months of pregnancy, six

months of exclusive breastfeeding). The development of a child from a

period of six months to two years is dependent on the nutrition of the child

during the period. It focuses on increasing the birth weight, reducing the

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). The

scheme aims to focus on the overall development of the child. The

problem of anemia in young children, adolescent girls and women is also

covered in the Abhiyan.

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HEALTHY MEWAT CAMPAIGN

In the state of Haryana, the two districts Nuh and Panipat were selected

for the first phase of the scheme. EMPOWER PEOPLE believes in the

accomplishment of schemes or programs through community

participation. It is important to

collaborate with the government

in order to accommodate the

community. The organization is a

community-based organization

and aims to carry out the tasks

through local citizen’s support and participation. Based on the working

module of the organization, the local people who had an influence on

the community in any way (e.g., religious leaders, parents, teachers, and

students). The scheme was explained in a way so that it could be

represented as an issue of public concern. The local influencers were used

to make the POSHAN Abhiyan a Jan Andolan. Therefore, a campaign was

launched known as ‘HEALTHY MEWAT’ in the village of Jataka of Angina

(Nuh). A meeting was held for the local community leaders which

included a half-day training program in order to understand the issue of

nutrition and its importance. During the discussion, people were quite

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shocked to learn about the health statistics. It was found that 70.1% of total

women belonging to the reproductive age in Mewat were Anemic. 80.7%

of the total children under the age of five also suffer from Anemia. It was

a shock to find out that Mewat ranks 464 amongst 599 districts of India in

terms of health. The campaign was led by the Bride Trafficking survivors

which created a ripple of diverse engagement and support.

The HINDU

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Communes Meeting

The organization regularly conducts a meeting in local areas to discuss,

create awareness and record the cases (if any). The image is an example

of such Community Survivor Commune meetings, which was organized in

village Nuh to resolve family disputes. A total of five cases of domestic

violence were reported in the meeting. Through discussions and

counseling with the parents, two cases of child marriage were prevented.

Through community awareness and discussions on the issue, the

community members vowed to stop child marriages in their community. It

was also made sure that the girl who was about to get married were sent

back to school to continue their education.

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Induction of PARO women media & journalism

An innovative program was initiated by the organization to empower the

survivor leaders and build their confidence. In this program, survivor

leaders tell different stories from the village by video recording them. The

video stories are from the villages where they live and serve as community

leaders. The survivors encourage other survivors to share their stories and

experiences in order to save them for the future. It is also planned to

extend the stories to other performances like folk songs and other talents

in the people of the area. The survivor handles the camera and prepare

the scripts and also motivate people to share their stories. This develops

leadership skills and the survivors feel responsible and accountable.

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ADVOCACY FOR UP-GRADATION IN SCHOOL

Tapkan school is an on-road school which has all facilities and eligibility to

be upgraded. The committee decided to advocate for school up-

gradation, which was rejected

many times before. The protest

was started after locking the

school. Local MLAs, Chairperson

Mewat Development authority

and several politicians visited the

place and assured their help in

advocacy at the state level.

It culminated on 22nd July after Surendra Pratap Deshwal BJP leader and

envoy to chief minister of Haryana visited the school. He assured up-

gradation of school and appointment of teachers on a priority basis.

It has been observed during the Aao School Chalen campaign this year,

that a large number of girls would be left behind after 10th as they don’t

have any nearby school for admission except going to Nagina Block

headquarter which is 12 to 16 km far from selected villages. And young

children need to cross almost 8 km of isolated agricultural field to reach

their schools.

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Local organizations were invited

to plan a protest before the

education department and

several organizations came into

the board for the campaigning for

school up-gradation. The protest

was staged before the district

education officer in Nuh from 11 June to 13 June. The District administration

came to discuss the issue and sent their recommendation for the up-

gradation of school. The school already has buildings and other facilities

required for up-gradation.

Work is being carried out regularly to advocate for necessary upgradation

of schools where applicable so the future of the country studies and learns

in an appropriate environment.

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Intervention in Mewat Model School Suicide case

Renu of Mewat Model School was found

hanging in her room in residential school, the

matter falls in suspicion as family was not

informed on time and they were only able to

see their daughter after post-mortem in district

hospital nalhar. Father of Girl alleged that his

daughter was killed by school administration as

he went to call on of warden where she

insulted her student and some teachers were

also harassing her for long. The deceased girl

belongs to Dalit family and administration was

covering up the case, we took this as serious

matter and contacted guardians of other children studying in the school.

And a massive protest was organized in front of the school. Resultantly, an

FIR was registered against school principal Sombeer Rana, class teacher

Shah Alam, library in-charge Pali and physical education teacher

Mahavir, and hostel warden Saraswati, under Section 302 (murder) of IPC

at Nuh police station.

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With regards to regular incidents of targeting Dalit students, a

memorandum of demand was given to Mewat Development Authority as

Mewat Model school is operated by Mewat Development Authority, the

Authority has set up an SIT to investigate all cases happening in Mewat

Model schools.

Central SC/ST Commission was also informed about the case and they

had come to investigate the whole situation. However, police were not

willing to accept this case as murder but they found that girl was in

pressure from her teachers and she had been insulted in Infront of many

other students in assembly and classes.

Case is still underway and follow-up of the case is going on.

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MEETING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

A Meeting dated 8th July 2018 was held with stakeholders and parents in

Uleta School. The school has all infrastructure except teachers the middle

school in the village has only one teacher which is a great hurdle in smooth

class hours and discipline. The situation became worse when 3 teachers of

primary school got transferred and no one comes to take charge. After

our intervention and complaint to DEO, Block education officer the school.

Resultantly three teachers has joined primary school in the same week.

However middle school yet didn’t get any new appointment. A complaint

has been made to CM window in district headquarter.

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Village Protection Committee Meeting

We created village

level protection

committees in

Villages and had

given them a task for

their respective

village so that,

government

programs and

schemes meant to protect children would implement properly and also

Panchayat would raise issues related to the protection of children. VPC

was attended by all service providers and villagers including mother clubs

formed by us last year.

In this manner, members of the VPC were educated about the new

development of Government schemes and also about social issues

related to children. The VPC passed a resolution to stop child marriage in

the village.

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Health camp in Kansali

With help from the legal literacy club of Hasan Khan Mewat medical

college, health camp was organized in Kansali village on 26 January

followed by Flag hoisting ceremony in the village. Sarpanch and other

dignitaries of the village were part of the event. Health camp provided

medicine and prescription to the village. Dr. Jyoti Ahlawat had shown

concern over number of anemic women and girls. It was found that many

women and girls didn’t even use sanitary pads or any kind of cloth

because of less blood flow. Her concerns were discussed with the villagers

and successive meetings were carried out to resolve the concerns.

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Fundraising events:

‘Nari’ documentary screening, 30th June 2018

The NYC premiere of the documentary ’Nari’, which has been produced

and directed by mother and son duo, Chaitanya Dingari and Durga

Dingari respectively, was launched as a fundraising event for Empower

People in New York City. The sincere heartfelt work was received very well

by the audience and all proceedings of the ticket sale were dedicated by

them for the March Against Bride Trafficking 2018.

The short film ‘Nari’ depicts the life, views, and struggles of women and girls

across various age groups. The film had a profound impact on the viewers,

who felt proud to be part of an initiative that empowered women. Durga

Dingari also spoke about the work of Empower People and the issue of

bride trafficking to spread awareness about the event. The crowd was

inspired to do everything they could to counter the discrimination and

marginalization of women. We also received a donation from their friend

who was not able to make it for the event but wished to contribute for the

March. We are very grateful to them for including Empower People in their

creative ventures and making the cause a part of the celebration and

screening of their beautiful documentary Nari.

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Fundraising for MABT- 2018

Inspiration Bead Works is a venture of Durga Dingari which aims to raise

funds via selling jewelry. She strongly believes that one should go

beyond our daily routine to do something for the society and help ease

the suffering in the world. For the event, despite a snowstorm in

Philadelphia, USA, people came to attend, yet many were not able to

and even requested her to keep it on one more day. They made

purchases online as well. Durga Ji was able to gather more than the

goal she had set and in her own words, she- “dedicated it to all the

women who are rescued and trying to move on.”

She sent the proceedings of the sale towards MABT- 2018 and she stands

to be one of the biggest contributors for the March. She also sent across

ten very creative MABT bracelets with messages of hope in them and

wanted the MABT team to wear them through March. We were able to

raise more funds through purchases made by supporters while some of

them were sponsored for the Marchers to wear.

We thoroughly appreciate the creative engagement of people for the

cause through innovative ideas of fundraising, which have lent the

entire cause an air of hope and positivity.

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OUR COVERAGE

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AUDIT REPORT

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Organization’s Details

Name of the Organization: EMPOWER PEOPLE

Registered Office: B 729 Pocket 11, Jasola Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110025, India.

Legal Status:

57377/06 Registered under SRA 1860 with the registrar of societies Government

of NCT of Delhi, have an 80G Registration DEL – EE23691-08022012 5454 and

12A NQ.DIT (E) 2011-12/Del ER21901 – 08022012

Phone: 011-30010211

Mobile: 9990452079

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.empowerpeople.org.in

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