• Educational Support: Providing essential educational materials like bags, notebooks, pencils, pens, and geometry boxes to the most vulnerable children.
• School Follow-Up: Ensuring children’s regular attendance by maintaining communication with schools and parents.
• Tutoring Services: Offering tuition classes at ARZ within the community to support academic progress.
• Health Camps: Organizing regular health camps and immunity programs in collaboration with local Primary Health Centres to ensure children’s well-being.

Boarding School Admissions

For children of trafficked victims and those who have suffered abuse and exploitation, ARZ facilitates boarding school admissions to provide a more conducive environment for education. The program involves the following steps:

• Parental Motivation: Encouraging trafficked victims to admit their children to local and boarding schools.
• Exposure and Interaction: Organizing visits to boarding schools and facilitating interactions between parents and school authorities.
• Consent-Based Admission: Admitting children to boarding schools with the consent of their parents.
• Parental Involvement: Arranging regular visits by parents to ensure children receive emotional support.
• Continuous Follow-Up: Regularly checking in with boarding school authorities and the children to monitor academic progress and emotional adjustment.
• Provision of Educational Material: Supplying notebooks, boarding fees, school fees, exam fees, and toiletries to support the children’s education.

Through Ankur, ARZ is committed to creating a safe, nurturing, and empowering environment for vulnerable children, ensuring they have the opportunities and support needed to build a better future.

Case Study

The 19-year-old client is the daughter of a single mother who dropped out of school at a young age. Her mother is a sex worker and a heavy alcohol addict. The client’s mother’s friend sexually abused and kidnapped her, trafficking her to Nepal. She was then rescued by the police and the ARZ team.

The client suffers from trauma and PTSD due to the sexual abuse and kidnapping. She has suffered from a lack of self-esteem and self-confidence and had an unstable family environment.

Today, the ARZ team provides counseling and support to her and helped her enroll in a hostel in Margao to provide a safe and stable environment. They also encouraged her to continue her education.

Despite facing hurdles and unimaginable challenges in life, she has cleared her SSC exams on her first attempt with good scores and has developed confidence and self-esteem. She now expresses hope for further education and skill-building, aspiring to complete her 12th standard and pursue a retailing course in Pune. Her mental health and well-being have significantly improved compared to earlier.

In conclusion, she is now building a better future for herself. Her story inspires hope and highlights the importance of providing support and resources to vulnerable individuals.