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Ruchira Gupta is the founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide (2002)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children from New Delhi.
Apne Aap Women Worldwide
Apne Aap works to end sex trafficking by empowering at-risk women and girls with education, legal rights and livelihood options. Founded by Ruchira Gupta, it organises grassroots collectives of survivors.
Apne Aap Women Worldwide reports the following, on its own site:
- 30,000 women provided with safe spaces
- 1.4 million meals provided to women and their families
- 10,000 women connected with government IDs; 3,000 linked to livelihoods
- Co-founded in 2002 by 22 women in prostitution
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 2002
- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Our organization was founded in 2002 by Ruchira Gupta along with 22 courageous women in prostitution who shared her vision of a world where no woman would be bought or sold.” — Apne Aap Women Worldwide. Source
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