Destiny Foundation is a social entreprise based in Kolkata, India. This social organisation works with highly vulnerable women who have been victims of sex trafficking or who are at high risk of being exploited. The main goal of Destiny is to empower the beneficiaries emotionally, socially as well as financially, and ultimately reintegrate them into the mainstream society.

From providing a home, to educating and employing the girls, Destiny Foundation is fighting for a better future for the girls.

Currently, the team is taking care of more than 100 women from India, Bangladesh and Nepal, who had been previously exploited. Since 2007, more than 75 girls and women have been successfully reintegrated into the mainstream society.

We need €800. Why?

The objective of the crowdfunding campaign is the purchase of a computer and the recruitment of a digital trainer in order to develop the company's activities and allow these women to acquire computer skills that will help integrate them into the professional world!

THE PROJECT TEAM

Like any social business, Destiny is struggling financially. I joined the team as campaigner and junior consultant to propose, develop and lead this project to raise funds for Destiny Foundation. In regular contact with Smarita Sengupta, founder of Destiny Foundation and Soumitri Bhattacharya, project coordinator, I am also conducting this consulting with the help of Paulami Mitra, a teacher and researcher on Social Entrepreneurship at IESEG School of Management (France).

DESTINY FOUNDATION: HOW DOES IT WORK?

The organisation is comprised of two divisions:

DESTINY FOUNDATION: FOCUS ON TRAINING

During this transition from the shelter home to the real world, the women are supported through counselling, rehabilitation and employment opportunities.

The trainings undertaken by Destiny Foundation include sewing, designing and crafting fashion goods. The women are also coached on basic life skills such as reading, writing, spoken English, accounting and computer skills. Workshops on hygiene are frequently hold too.

Of course, all this comes at a cost!

It is a financial challenge to scale activities. Even though the social business wing Destiny Reflection partially sustains the charitable wing, this is not enough!

Through this fundraising campaign, we aim to bring together donors who aim to add meaning to the lives of these women so that they can achieve basic employment skills and attain an unexploited and abuse-free future.

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