Activities
Katakhali Empowerment and Youth Association
Child Protection Issue:
Keya has been working on child protection issues from 2011 Hasnabad and Hingalganj block of North 24 parganas. It is the project of the MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT GOVT. OF INDIA. It is also a network of women and child development to implement ICPS in 210 districts of India. 500 organisations are involved in this programme, KEYA is one of them to work in north 24 parganas West Bengal. Among child protection issues, stop trafficking, prevent early marriage, child labour, care for the street children and abandoned children. Moreover many underprivileged children have got medical help, shelter, restoration/ repatriation, rescue, rehabilitation, sponsor, from this Childline programme.
Keya is working with the anti trafficking programme to rescue and rehabilitate the trafficked -victims and punish the traffickers in collaboration with SANJOG INDIA and BUP. From different corner of the block
KEYA sources the cases and helps the victim families for GDE/FIR and arrest of the traffickers and rescue the victims with the help of police. KEYA provided support to the partner family.
It is a project supported by ANASVAD FRANCE and SPAIN, Sanjog India coordinated by Barasat Unnayan Prostuti. Three rescued girls of this project have got livelihood support for their income generation.Mental & physical health support.
The Anti-Trafficking Program was started as a result of documentation and research into the trafficking of women in children since we felt its impact. The Program has continued to collect data on human trafficking from North 24 Pgs areas of and started to prepare the programme plan as it is spreading rapidly in the society.
Vocational Computer Training
Through our computer training programme last year 42 students got training and job. This programme is supported by ANUDIP FOUNDATION. It is job oriented training namely MAST (market allied skill training). Officially it is called livelihood initiative through a knowledge programme to support the underprivileged youth of the villages. We began providing vocational training of TAILORING AND BEAUTICIANS COURSES to trafficked women and girls of our area. The aims of this program are to provide vocational training to women who have been trafficked, and to enable them to generate income for themselves and their families in their own communities without needing to migrate to work and thus become vulnerable to being trafficked.
Training is provided in skills such as weaving, sewing and handicraft production, with an emphasis on traditional products. Education on basic rights is also given to the trainees.
Awareness Raising on Trafficking:
KEYA organizes regular outreach to raise awareness about trafficking among the communities inside the village. KEYA has also produced awareness raising song CDs, leaflet, wall writing and posters aimed at preventing trafficking, and distributing them among local communities in cooperating together with local community network groups.
Training Programme:
The programme of KATAKHALI EMPOWERMENT & YOUTH ASSOCIATION aims to make a significant impact on women in traditional sectors by upgrading skills and providing employment to such women on a project basis by mobilizing women in viable groups, improving skills, arranging for productive assets, creating backward and forward linkages, improving/arranging for support services, providing access to credit, awareness generation, gender sensitization, nutrition education, sensitization of project functionaries. Thus, KATAKHALI EMPOWERMENT & YOUTH ASSOCIATION advocates an integrated package of inputs aiming at the integrated development of poor women in traditional sectors. The ultimate endeavour of each project should be to develop the group to thrive on a self-sustaining basis in the market place with the minimal Governmental support and intervention after the project period is over.
Right to livelihood:
KEYA helped many people get ration cards. We help people to be enrolled with MGNREGS programmes (locally known 100 days employment guarantee scheme). Helped many persons to get old age pension and some persons for getting house under INDIRA AWAS YOJANA and helped biri workers for getting house building grants Indian Muslim women movements.
Women are more deprived in our society. Among them Muslim women are more vulnerable as they are less educated and financially weak. We worked with these Muslim women and helped to be organised to raise their voices. We organised awareness camps for informing different scopes for Muslim women available in the state and central level. We also helped ten Muslim women with legal support who are victims of domestic violence.
Health Related Programme:
We have been working for 3 years on health related issues for childrens. We organised many Disabilities need assessment camps. We regularly communicate and help with medical treatment in government facilities from government hospitals like- physical challenge ,heart leak, thalassemia, cancer patient.we deal huge no. Of cases for treatment regularly. Some heart leak cases are very successfully operated and completely cured now. Many childrens get their disability identity card through our programme. We support to the many disability AID to the childrens.