Goranbose Gram Bikash Kendra

Goranbose Gram Bikash Kendra (GGBK) is a registered non-profit voluntary organization registered under the W.B. Societies Registration Act-1961 and ha Read mores FCRA Certificate from the Ministry of Home Affairs. We work on the issue of Human Trafficking, Child Rights, Woman Rights, and Climate Change impact on communities and also provide special need assistance to affected persons in the Sunderban delta of South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal. Through our process and project, we work as a facilitator and train the communities and the leaders of the collective in building resilient communities through Prevention, Protection, Rehabilitation and strengthening Criminal Justice System. Our activities are intervention-based, creating awareness among the community and helping them develop livelihood opportunities. We work directly with community leaders, survivors of human trafficking and marginalized and vulnerable groups. GGBK acts as a facilitator helping the community and survivor leaders to be an implementer with the support of CSRs and Funding partners.  Over the past years, GGBK has worked directly with survivors of various forms of gender-based violence. Since the last few years, their focus has been on rehabilitative and retributive justice for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation who have come back to their respective source communities after being rescued from situations of exploitation in various states of India and abroad. GGBK has developed a collective of survivors of gender-based violence, namely the Bandhan Mukti Survivors' Collective. The organization mentors and empowers the collective to function as a defender of the human rights of the survivors. Presently GGBK is strategically intervening in the axis of gender-based violence, human trafficking, migration, climate change impact on the community, empowerment of adolescents and young adults, leadership and system building. GGBK works in collaboration with the community, survivors, youth, government and non-government stakeholders, police and administration, lawyers, social workers, psychologists, civil society organizations, judiciary and media. GGBK has interventions in West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Delhi. GGBK is part of different networks with CBOs, CSOs, NGOs, and part of different advisory and monitoring committees of the government. 2500 survivors are now in a forum as survivor leaders and there are survivors forums at State and National levels and they are advocating for systemic sustainable changes as co-facilitator with GGBK. Vision- GGBK envisages a community free from all evils, ensuring justice, equality and peace for development with community leadership. Mission- GGBK aims to create the best and most meaningful opportunities for the vulnerable without discrimination ensuring enough means to lead a life with dignity. It also aims to adopt disaster management and mitigate climate change issues. GGBK accords particular emphasis on raising and developing outstanding leaders among women, youth and children as good citizens. We have taken up preferential options for the poor and decided to work with the poor on equal terms with the poor.