EMPOWER PEOPLE is a registered Society since 2006 with 80 G and 12 A certificates singularly focusing on work with victims and potential victims of human trafficking (bride trafficking to be precise) and honour crimes against women. The organisation is gradually taking the form and shape of a grassroots social movement, with a few autonomous Community based organisations in seven states of India, activist individuals and groups primarily in Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand,Punjab,Rajasthan, West Bangal and some linkages in Himachal Pradesh. EMPOWER PEOPLE has a membership base of atleast 10,000 persons belonging to the above states which form a loose informal network. Majority of the active members are from Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. This membership base was possible because of the Shafiq its founder's work in the area – first through an educational initiative called Career Development Corner (CDC) which started in 1999 and later through EMPOWER PEOPLE .  Read more >>

BRIDE TRAFFICKING

Focusing on empowerment of Trafficking survivors, not on numbers or victim hood. working to protect, support and organize trafficked women and girls from the vicious cycle of trafficking. The young women who are mainly sold off as brides and brought to North India are being used as sex slave are called “Paro” or “Molki”. It has also been found that theses women are also being used as farm worker and are being sexually abused and resold to other man that again provide a market for trafficking of women. Read More 

Sustainable community Development 

Issues of rural poverty and health have traditionally been the concern of governments. In the past, and even today, most programs designed to benefit rural India are funded and managed exclusively by the government. Private initiatives are lacking as the government, to preserve its power, has placed obstacles and disincentives at every step. For example, modern healthcare for all of rural India is a free government service, but the reality is that the delivery of primary health care has failed miserably. Read more>> 

LATEST NEWS

Announcement New Executive Team
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NURTURE consultancy wing of EMPOWER PEOPLE,
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Life at stake, Shafiq fights female slavery
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Carl Gierstorfer's article series on our work under his project India: Lost Female Infants
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Our founder honored with Amazing Indian award 2013 by Times Now
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EMPOWER PEOPLE GOT MANTHAN AWARD.
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March Against Bride Trafficking 2012
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