Our Work
Know Me India Trust provides life skills, technical training, and job opportunities for women at risk of human trafficking and modern slavery. We empower vulnerable women and girls in India to make informed decisions about their future and create pathways to financial stability.
Workforce
Development
We train and develop women to access income generating opportunities and increase financial stability. We provide life skills training, sector-specific technical training, job placement or support opening a small business. We provide mentorship and motivation to encourage and support the women in their journey.
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
We provide young girls with a safe place to socialize and learn life skills that supplement traditional schooling. We support the girls in developing self awareness and to make informed decisions for their future. The girls learn their rights, use their voices, and become advocates for change within their communities.
Swabhimaan Project
Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd. and Know Me India Trust entered into a partnership to fight against human trafficking, modern slavery, and poverty by providing skills training to women from vulnerable social and economic communities and place in jobs at Shahi Exports’ garment factories. The Partnership empowers women to be economically independent and lead a life of freedom and dignity.
Beetha’s
Story
Beetha is 40 years old from Odisha, with a grade 9 education and two children. She had no steady source of income and when her husband passed away, she was in dire circumstances barely making ends meet to pay loans. What little was leftover was spent on food. She learned about the Know Me India Trust program through a community member and completed the Life Skills and Technical Training in sewing. After working at a tailoring shop for some time, she saved money to open her own grocery shop. Now, she is taking care of her family financially and helping her children to study. She is very happy the program helped her to stand on her own, counseled her and gave encouragement.(name changed to protect identity)
Beetha's
Story
Annamika’s
Story
Annamika is in her 20s with a grade 10 education. Her father owns a small business but is not able to fully support the family financially. Instead of getting married, she wanted to help her family financially. Through the KMIT intervention, Annamika attended the Life Skills course and then was accepted into the technical skills training with Shahi Exports. She was then offered employment and placed in a job at the Shahi factory in Bangalore. “With this opportunity I have been able to help my parents, send money home, and save money for my future.” Annamika mentors and encourages young girls to build a plan for their own future.(name changed to protect identity)
Annamika's
Story
We believe that all people have the right to be free — free to have ownership over their bodies, free to choose when and how they will participate in work, and free to live a life without the threat of violence and exploitation.
Fundamental freedoms are withheld, and enslaved people cannot leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and abuse of power. Modern slavery disproportionately affects women and girls, who make up 71% of total victims.
The number of persons trafficked for forced labor in India comes within the range of 20 to 65 million; and 90% of the trafficking occurs domestically intra-state or interstate
65 percent of questioned sex workers attributed their entry into trafficking to poverty and lack of education
Over 90% of India’s total workforce are engaged in the informal economy in agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, manufacturing, construction, and service industries. Vulnerabilities of the informal sector include withholding of wages, debt bondage, and physical and sexual abuse at the workplace.
Almost 8 million people in India are trapped in human trafficking.
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Human trafficking in India affects those most vulnerable in society. The most at-risk are those from lower social classes, living in poverty, without a strong family structure, and with little education. – The Exodus Road