SUMMARY
Prajwala, India's preeminent anti-sex trafficking organization, is in crisis and needs your help. Following a series of attacks this year on Prajwala staff and facilities, and fearing similar reprisals, the landlord for Prajwala's Economic rehabilitation Center is forcing them to vacate by September, 2015. Without the economic rehabilitation center, critical rehabilitation services for survivors of sex trafficking will be lost. All efforts to find another suitable rented premises has availed no results as most people are uncomfortable having sex trafficked victims in their neighborhood. Further, the fear of attacks by traffickers has discouraged many others to open their doors for this intervention.
Consequently, Prajwala is forced to find some land to relocate these life-giving interventions. As the other interventions are also going through a similar crises the new campus which will become the base camp for all the Prajwala Interventions which will include Economic Rehabilitation Center, An Emergency Shelter and all other interventions of Prajwala including the Rescue
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After we extended our crowdera deadline last week, a complimentary opportunity to raise funds presented itself and we would like to share it with you as a way to continue support. Donations are still needed and very welcome, but for those of you who have already donated and would like to still contribute a few seconds a day, Microsoft's #upgradeyourworld campaign is a great way to help Prajwala win $500,000 to sustain operations and build an economic rehabilitation center and emergency shelter. Each person can vote once per day until voting closes August 23.
Three ways to vote daily:
1. Pasting the following phrase as a comment to this Windows post: http://on.fb.me/1MWqDyO
"I vote for @Prajwala_info to #UpgradeYourWorld as they fight sex trafficking across the globe.”
2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upgradeyourworld/ scroll down and write in I vote for "Prajwala_info" (twitter) or "@prajwala" the one with 20k likes is the official page (for facebook) once a day and share
3. You can also tweet: "I #Vote @Prajwala_info to #UpgradeYourWorld"
The organization with the most votes from the public wins! Let's help Prajwala get there!
You all have supported Prajwala so much in the past and we count you as valuable partners in the fight against human trafficking. Thank you.
We are thrilled to announce that we have made some great strides this week. A few large donations have come in, one large personal donation and many as a result of a Sakshi TV spot, which was broadcast on Monday. The video can be watched below. You can find the rest of the links to the full interview in youtube. During and right after this TV spot, over $55,000 USD was donated to Prajwala! We know that we will be able to accomplish big things together and are so thankful for all you have done so far to support our mission and critical cause.
We also decided to extend the deadline for donations for another month. We are just over 40% and look forward to reaching 100% of our goal!
Until next time!
Due to all of your generous support, 90% of the necessary building funds have been secured and construction has made some great progress! We are so close to completion but still have 10% more to raise, or $148,000. It is urgent as we are out of funds to finish the work and will come to a standstill in the next couple of days. We have a new campaign here on crowdera to complete the mission. Please help! https://crowdera.co/c/dExvU8rh
Thank you!
Due to all of your generous support, 90% of the necessary building funds have been secured and construction has made some great progress! We are so close to completion but still have 10% more to raise, or $148,000. It is urgent as we are out of funds to finish the work and will come to a standstill in the next couple of days. We have a new campaign here on crowdera to complete the mission. Please help! https://crowdera.co/c/dExvU8rh
Thank you!
Due to all of your generous support, 90% of the necessary building funds have been secured and construction has made some great progress! We are so close to completion but still have 10% more to raise, or $148,000. It is urgent as we are out of funds to finish the work and will come to a standstill in the next couple of days. We have a new campaign here on crowdera to complete the mission. Please help! https://crowdera.co/c/dExvU8rh
Thank you!
Due to all of your generous support, 90% of the necessary building funds have been secured and construction has made some great progress! We are so close to completion but still have 10% more to raise, or $148,000. It is urgent as we are out of funds to finish the work and will come to a standstill in the next couple of days. We have a new campaign here on crowdera to complete the mission. Please help! https://crowdera.co/c/dExvU8rh
Thank you!
Due to all of your generous support, 90% of the necessary building funds have been secured and construction has made some great progress! We are so close to completion but still have 10% more to raise, or $148,000. It is urgent as we are out of funds to finish the work and will come to a standstill in the next couple of days. We have a new campaign here on crowdera to complete the mission. Please help! https://crowdera.co/c/dExvU8rh
Thank you!
Update #2: The Land is bought for the shelter and economic rehabilitation center! We are thrilled that we found this beautiful property close to the Hyderabad airport. Yesterday, Prajwala completed 'Bhoomi Puja', or a prayer offering to the land before construction starts. Today, the bore well (water from the earth) and the electricity connections were be secured. Both of these are required before the actual construction starts. It is just a race against time now.
And all this we are doing while ensuring that our core work is not disturbed. For example, last week Prajwala rescued 64 survivors, 32 of whom were minors (the press got the numbers wrong). Read more here: http://www.pressreader.com/
Prajwala's rehabilitation shelter 60km from Hyderabad city is rehabilitating 32 of the survivors, the rest of the rescued girls or women have gone to other NGOs rehabilitation sites.
Great things are happening and will continue to happen because of your support. We still have a long way to go to make our goal so please continue to spread the word. Every little bit brings us closer to ending the flesh trade. Thank you so much.
In support of "Securing Prajwala", an Anti-Trafficking campaign, #YOUVA volunteers are gonna cook tasty breakfast near NCC gate, Osmania University, on Sunday morning(28th June). The money earned would be donated to the "Securing Prajwala" cause.
So, be there and support the cause! Thank you OSMANIA UNIVERSITY IN HYDERABAD!
2260 lives have changed as a result of donors' support.