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Rose of Sharon works with young women and girls from marginalized communities and vulnerable to human trafficking and aims to provide food, clothing and shelter and vocational skills to help them live a self-sufficient independent life.
Rose of Sharon is a unit of Rays of Peace Trust, India that focuses on uplifting the oppressed communities in India
Our long-term program consists of rescue, rehabilitation, and restoration to the community. We are currently based in Karnataka and would expand to other states as and when funding is made available.
The construction of this facility happened in 2016 in a small village in rural Bangalore which is primarily used for a residential program for Rehabilitation and Vocational Training of these rescued women and was Inaugurated on January 19, 2019. The residential program benefited 2 ladies in 2019.
According to estimates, human trafficking in India may affect between 20 and 65 million people. Women and girls are trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage, especially in those areas where the sex ratio is highly skewed in favor of men. A significant number of children are subjected to forced labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers, while others have been used as child soldiers by insurgent or terrorist groups.
Even though India is the world’s largest democratic republic, the country is plagued with widespread poverty and lack of proper education, resulting in a myriad of human rights violations, especially against women and girls.
Last year, India has been coined ‘the world’s most dangerous country for women’, ahead of Afghanistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, according to a poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which surveyed 548 experts on six different indices, including healthcare, discrimination, cultural traditions, sexual and non-sexual violence, and human trafficking.
This project started in the year 2020 and intends to give skills training in tailoring, embroidery, and fashion design courses for sustainable livelihoods. This year five young women were enrolled into our 6 month program and have graduated successfully. With this vocational skills training, women will live with dignity by earning money themselves. During this training, women learnt and developed skills in tailoring & embroidery to work on sarees and blouse pieces.
Women are facing atrocities & harassment at work place and have no role in decision making due to lack of financial independence. They are treated as second class citizens. They are working as laborers in market yard, cleaners in hospitals, private enterprises & engaged in beedi (tobacco) making, a hazardous profession. They are socially & culturally ill-treated. They lack employable skills & sustainable and dignified livelihoods
This tailoring & embroidery project helped create economic development of women & break poverty. Tailoring & embroidery training have provided self-employment at their homes that can give them a daily income and can enable them to buy necessary medicines and make them capable to pay school fee for their growing children. Investment in these women is a proven path to reduce poverty. They are disadvantaged when it comes to employment, education, and work skills.
This tailoring & embroidery project helped create economic development of women & break poverty. Tailoring & embroidery training have provided self-employment at their homes that can give them a daily income and can enable them to buy necessary medicines and make them capable to pay school fee for their growing children. Investment in these women is a proven path to reduce poverty. They are disadvantaged when it comes to employment, education, and work skills.
