Research

Red-light Area Mapping: Falkland Road & Vashi-Turbhe
Over the years, Prerana has witnessed significant changes in the RLAs. Since 2011, Prerana began routinely mapping the RLAs of Kamathipura, Falkland Rd. and Vashi Turbhe. Through this exercise, the team of Prerana’s social workers has been able to identify the changing structures and dynamics of the RLAs. Understanding this is crucial for planning welfare and developmental services and strategies. The annual RLA mapping is undertaken in the months of February and March.
Through this document, we aim to share an update on the current number of brothels, services, and organizations functioning in the RLAs of Falkland Rd. and Vashi-Turbhe with a reference to data collected in 2016.

COVID-19 and Families of CSE Victims : A Rapid Assessment Study
Our Post Rescue Operations team works with children who have been rescued from commercial sexual exploitation. The team’s area of intervention includes working with the families of the victims to further the rehabilitation in the best interest of the child. These families belong to low-income groups and depend on daily wages. Many of them also work in the informal sector. The lockdown significantly affected the financial condition of these families, along with affecting their access to food, health care, and social security schemes. This is a Rapid Assessment Study (RAS) of the situation of the children and their families who the Post Rescue Operations team works with.

COVID-19 and Migrant Workers’ Families on the Streets : A Rapid Assessment Study
Our Sanmaan team works with families who have migrated from their native places to Mumbai or Navi Mumbai.
These families are dependent on daily wages. Some of them also work in the informal sector.With the lockdown, every income-generating activity of these families came to a halt. With no transportation, mobility of these families was also affected. This is a Rapid Assessment Study (RAS) of the situation of the children and their families
whomSanmaan works with.

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Rules, 2020: A Comparative Look
The Prerana team created and worked on a comparison table of the new rules and old rules. This particular document highlights the new changes based on the stakeholder responsible for the execution of the same. In the attempt to potentially ensure a robust child protection system, these documents have been put together so that the relevant stakeholders can easily identify changes and their role in it.

COVID-19 and the Red-Light Areas : A Rapid Assessment Study
This is a Rapid Assessment Study of the situation of the Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking living in the Kamathipura Red-Light Area and the adjoining Falkland Road of Mumbai. It also covers those who were earlier living in the aforementioned areas but had shifted their stay in the last 10 years and still come to these RLAs to solicit.

Inter-sectoral Analysis of the Migrant Backward Communities and Induction of their Children in Beggary in Mumbai & Navi Mumbai
Prerana’s Sanmaan project works closely with children found begging and rescued by the police. This research by Sanmaan, examines the responses of the State, the current role, and gaps within the Juvenile Justice System and the factors affecting the role of the community in preventing or facilitating the induction of the children in beggary.

Field Visit to Bangladesh
The patterns in cross-border trafficking keep changing. As an organisation working on anti-human trafficking initiatives for over three decades, we felt it was important to enhance our understanding of the current situation and trends.

Assessment Of Education Support Program – June 2018
The Education Support Program (ESP) was prompted as a result of one of Prerana’s priorities for intervention, namely ending intergenerational trafficking. The ESP was born out of the organization’s commitment to the children’s right to education.

HIV/AIDS and Illness in Red-Light Area – Match and Mismatch of Health Services
This document explores how the formerly sex trafficked and prostituted, but now rehabilitated, women perceived health and health services.

Revisiting the Evil Social Custom of Sex Trafficking in North-West India
To build a contemporary understanding of these communities (mainly the Nat and Bedia communities), the ATC Team visited Rajasthan in 2018. The study was approached through casework interventions based on Prerana’s past experiences of working with victims from the communities.

NUTRITION IMPACT REPORT 2017
In Prerana’s 30 years of working with women and children in the red-light areas of Mumbai, we have witnessed varied instances where women

Distribution of Children in Prerana’s Night Care Centers as per Gender, Place of Origin & Chronology (2006-2016)
In 1988, Prerana introduced the world to the first Night Care Center (NCC) offering mothers a safe place to protect their children from the dangers

Understanding Human Trafficking in the Current Context
Among the various theoretical options available to understand the situation of human trafficking, some are impracticable while some

Assessment Of Education Support Program – June 2018
Education is an important tool in the contemporary world in order to lead a dignified life, ensure socio-economic development and open doors

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Of The Internet – The Bot In The Lives Of Children From Mumbai’s Red-light Areas
In the first of our two-part series on “Open House” of children in Prerana, we bring to you what children of victims of commercial sexual exploitation

Busting The Myth: Mobile & (Im)mobility In Lives Of Prostituted Women In Red-Light Areas
With technological advancement in leaps and bounds, cheaper internet and free calls, one appears to practice

Too Many Names But No Identity – The Reality Of Children In Red-Light Areas
For victims of commercial sexual exploitation, loss of identity goes way beyond a layman’s
understanding.