Working With Survivors

Help Line and Support centre for Girls and women -7300288555

One of Vikalp’s primary goals is to empower the women survivors of violence. We work with field workers, social leaders, local administrators, advocates and counselors to ensure that all survivors of gender-based violence are able to receive holistic support. By working to increase the self-respect and self-worth of survivors of violence, Vikalp strives to help women lift themselves out of victimhood, ending cycles of self-blame and empowering them to become pillars of strength within their communities. Vikalp also works to connect survivors with important resources by building grassroots community support networks that provide them with social, economic, legal and psychological support, counseling and assistance.

Vikalp also operated two Counseling and Protection Centre for women in two different districts of Rajasthan in collaboration with the Women and Children Department and Police in Udaipur.

Helpline center was established in 2017 in Udaipur deals with violence against women and supports survivors by working with the local police and also provides counseling and legal aid to them. The helpline center has been in placed to give the survivors a safe shelter for as long as needed. After solving the cases Vikalp also conducts follow up sessions with them to ensure that they are able to continue their lives without any threats and are in a mental state to take charge of their future.

Center Attributes

• Free of cost
• Identity is kept confidential
• All kinds of help in one place
• Enhance self-respect & courage

Ways to take Help

• Telephonic conversation
• Letter writing or center visit by self
• By sending relatives, spouse or friends to center

KINDS OF HELP

• Advice, explanation and guidance
• Mediation for negotiation on both sides
• Legal Aid
• Assistance to stay in shelter
• Help in police case
• Preparation of women in case going on in court
• Linking to government schemes (Palanhar scheme, Social security pension scheme, Scheme for Labor department
• Issues like witch customs
• To women experiencing mental, physical and economical violence
• Sexual harassment (issues like tamper, oral harassment, rape and harassment at workplace
• Help and advice in Domestic violence like not allow to study, mismatch child marriage, discrimination, child marriage
• Help and advice on other related issues of girls and women.

Team to Help

• Women Social Worker
• Advocates
• Psychologists & psychiatrist
• Independent social worker
• Anti women atrocities forum group
• Institution of temporary refal network