Guria India Blog

The adolescent girls at Guria’s center in Varanasi’s red-light area created beautiful artwork in a 3-day handicraft workshop. They are taking ownership over their artwork and their lives.They made flower pot, pen stand, board painting etc.

During the last 3 years Guria organised 67 workshops with 6700 children from different schools and colleges at the Indo-Nepal border(both source and transit area) to make the children aware about human trafficking since these children are the softest target for the traffickers.These children are also the best means to percolate the message within their families and society.

SPECKS OF DUST , a film about Guria, screened at  ‪#‎ PrincetonReunions‬   to a crowd of alumni. We are grateful to have shared the story of our organization with an enthusiastic audience.

In the last two years Guria has organised a number of sensitization meetings with the police/Indo-Nepal Border Force/Media in order to ensure a check on cross-border trafficking. We also had a successful interface of the school children with the border force. Guria has also been a resource of the National Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development for the training of hundreds of police personnel from five states – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Chattisgarh.

It's been now 6 days since the french volunteers arrived at Guria and we have loved having them! Since they have been here they have participated in drama classes, impromptu dance parties, and have helped paint another beautiful mural on the walls of the Varanasi center.

“The petitioner has rendered commendable assistance to the Court in these proceedings by highlighting an important public issue in the public interest petition for which the Court would record its appreciation” - mentioned the chief justice in a rare gesture. The Honourable Chief Justice of high court further mentioned in his order to provide compensation to minor victims of sexual abuse and clarified that, “ There is absolutely no reason or justification to exclude offences under Sections 7, 9 and 11 from the purview of the fund in addition to the provisions of Sections 4, 6 and 14” of The Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012.  For more details click the link below http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/…/WebDownloadJudgment…

A total of 16 bonded labourers,including 7 children, were rescued from slavery by Guria from the brick kiln industry  in Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh state on May 22, 2015.