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Meet Ajeet Singh - The Man Who's Fighting A War Against The Trafficking Of Women And Children In India: This a rticle in India times is about Guria and the founder Ajeet.  Indiatimes is the flagship brand of Time Internet which is the largest online group in India, with over 6.5 billion monthly pageviews. 

This is the latest article about Guria and our colleague Santwana Manju in Hindustan Times, New Delhi edition.

In May 2016, Guria rescued 7 bonded labours, of Chhattisgarh state, from the district of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Last week Ajeet Singh from Guria was the resource person for the training of trainers (TOT) programme for SSB (indo-nepal border force) at sector headquarters Lakhimpur and Gorakhpur under the guidance of IG Frontier headquarter, SSB Lucknow and UNICEF.

The UNICEF team from Belgium along with the UNICEF UP state office visited the Guria's children centre in the red light area of varanasi and saw the efforts to empower children. The team also visited the government after care home for girls where Guria is placed as a mentor by the government to replicate our efforts.

The Logical Indian wrote an article about Guria! You can find it here:  https://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/get-inspired/meet-ajeet-singh-the-unsung-hero-who-has-rescued-over-1000-girls-from-traffickers/

In the public interest litigation no. 824/2016 Guria Swayam Sevi Sansthan vs State of UP & Others, the State of Uttar Pradesh has issued a government order for constitution of a Medical Board to determine the age of juvenile. The board will be headed by Chief Medical Officer as the Chairman and will consist of 3 other members namely Orthopaedist, Radiologist and Dental Surgeon in every district of the state of Uttar Pradesh. This will immensely help the victims of Rape and Sex trafficking who were mostly denied justice because of corruption. 

Twenty teachers under the FULBRIGHT Fellowship from the U.S. visited the Guria children centre in the redlight area of varanasi. This was an effort by the educators to explore issues, challenges and strategies related to guria's struggle against sex trafficking and child prostitution. Giancarlo Malchiodi from the Fulbright group wrote:  Positivity Check: Guria -- "We are a center that creates human beings who love, with love." (No facial photos of children to both respect their privacy and their personal safety). Power-team Ajeet and Manju (husband and wife) provide a safe space, enrichment, and emotional therapy to children of sex workers who, in some cases, have been trafficked themselves (and, in either case, are traumatized by the experience). Their mission began some years ago when Manju saw a girl of about seven working the slum streets, saying to her husband "We must do something about this." He had previously adopted some red-light district chil...

Dia Mirza is  an Indian model, actress and producer, who won the Miss Asia Pacific 2000 title. On 11 June, she visited  with the children of Guria boat school. She participated with the children in meditation, painting, and singing.

Dear supporters  This is the latest article about GURIA !! http://www.thebetterindia.com/33241/ajeet-singh-guria-sex-trafficking-varanasi/

India's Minister for Women and Child Development unveiled a draft of the country's first ever comprehensive anti-human trafficking law on 30th may 2016. The minister, in her speech, also praised GURIA for its support in drafting the legislation as the member of the Inter-Ministerial committee. It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Women and Child Development had constituted an Inter-Ministerial committee for preparing a comprehensive legislation on trafficking in which GURIA was a member. ‪#‎ humanrights‬   ‪#‎ humantrafficking‬   ‪#‎ slavery‬   ‪#‎ freedomnow‬   ‪#‎ Guria‬   ‪#‎ justice‬ ‪#‎ rape‬   ‪#‎ sextrafficking‬   ‪#‎ sexslavery‬   ‪#‎ childprostitution‬ ‪#‎ commercialsexualexploitation‬   ‪#‎ rescue‬   ‪#‎ bondedlabour‬   ‪#‎ forcedlabour‬

Please take a few minutes to watch and share this video on GURIA'S rescue and much more...

Specks of Dust premiered in New York City with great success!

A national record : 61 brothels seized worth over INR 120 carores($ 182 million). GURIA simultaneously wrote an application to the district administration and filed a PIL in the honourable high court to rescue minor trafficked girls from the Allahabad red light area in north india. On the request of the district administration GURIA officially submitted the details of recce operation, rescue map, spy cam video clips, photographs, plan of action, criminal histories of traffickers, identified brothels, list of traffickers etc which was then again submitted by the administration to the honourable chief justice of high court. Fourteen team leaders of GURIA lead the police teams for rescue and 12 lady counselors counseled the victims. We rescued 134 victims from the indian states of Karnataka, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. 48 brothel keepers/traffickers were also arrested. We worked undercover for over one year to collect evidence and later discarding al...

On 7th april 2016 Guria rescued 2 child bonded labours (carpet industry), of West Bengal state, from the district of Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh.

Today, South Texas College screened "Specks of Dust" at their Human Trafficking Conference. The film was followed by a Q&A session with Ajeet Singh over Skype. Artworks were also on display for the FREEDOM NOW Global Art Exchange and Exhibit. #‎ humanrights‬   ‪#‎ humantrafficking‬   ‪#‎ slavery‬   ‪#‎ freedomnow‬   ‪#‎ Guria‬   ‪#‎ justice‬ ‪#‎ rape‬   ‪#‎ sextrafficking‬   ‪#‎ sexslavery‬   ‪#‎ childprostitution‬   ‪#‎ specksofdust‬   ‪#‎ art‬

On 12th april 2016 Guria rescued 17 bonded labours, of chhattisgarh state, from the district of allahabad in uttar pradesh. ‪#‎ humanrights‬   ‪#‎ humantrafficking‬   ‪#‎ slavery‬   ‪#‎ freedomnow‬   ‪#‎ Guria‬   ‪#‎ justice‬ ‪#‎ bondedlabour‬   ‪#‎ forcedlabour‬   ‪#‎ rescue‬

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow submitted a " A REPORT OF SOCIAL AUDIT OF CHILD CARE CARE INSTITUTIONS (CCI's ) IN THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH" to the department of women and child development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. In this Report Guria's open shelter for children scored - A GRADE (excellent).

The department of women and child development of the state of UP gave us the task to work with the children of the after care home at varanasi. Guria’s holistic experiment has already set a model which is now being replicated by other homes of the state of Uttar Pradesh in north india. The whole idea is to work on the self by taking the child into the world of inward journey through the tool of Art – painting, music, dance, theatre, photography, videography, shouting class , laughing class, meditation, gardening, feeding the birds etc and connect them to the entire existence around us. We are greatful to the Principal Secretary Ms Renuka Kumar and the Probation officer Mr Prabhat Ranjan for giving us this opportunity.