Shelter for Women Escaping Trafficking & Abuse

MissingLink began its journey with the idea and intention to meet the gaps of development planning. It envisioned a healthy environment for women to grow and work towards violence free future.

In West Bengal, one in every two children is still anemic, as per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report in 2016. It also states, “Mothers do not fare any better than children in this regard either, as more than 60% of all women and 53.2% of pregnant women were found anemic in the state”. Needless to mention women from poverty-stricken districts like Murshidabad are affected by the outcomes of malnutrition for generations in their families. Hence, the team worked very hard and prepared the shelter premise to grow nutritious vegetables and greens in the last year. It started with fencing the area to protect it from grazing goats and bovines. It took many months of mulching before the first seeds were sowed. Our residents and team members made sure to nurture the growing vegetable garden until it started providing garden fresh greens to the residents in their meals. Thanks to IBA Molecular for their partnership for supporting MissingLink to work on the garden project and taking care of nutrition for the young women and their children residing in the shelter.

In the mean time MissingLink team kept on providing their services to the victims of domestic violence and reached out to 29 more cases through the shelter services like health check up, legal support, counseling and livelihood training programs. Other than working with the victims and volunteers in the villages, the team also reached out to the local law college to sensitize law students on the rights of the survivors. We believe it is very important to engage with the next generation of service providers while they acquire their academic knowledge.

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