Book launch of Arpan with Lillete Dubey
Healing the child within…
Leading NGO working towards the cause of Child Sexual Abuse
launches a Process Documentation of Psychotherapy with Children in Institutions in
the form of a book titled ‘Rescue & Remedy’
Mumbai, 9th July 2015: Arpan the NGO Global Excellence Award Winner 2015
in the category of Child Rights is an NGO; working hard to address the issue of
Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in India. Based in Mumbai, Arpan is the one of the
largest NGO in India in this specific area with over 50 social workers and
counselors providing prevention and intervention services to children and
adults.
Arpan has
been conducting long-term psychotherapy for the last 5 years for more than 65
rescued minor girls living in Advait Foundation, a rehabilitation home. These
children are largely from families that are vulnerable due to poverty,
alcoholism, drug abuse etc. and have come from
various parts of the country as well as neighboring countries.The
psychological problems faced by these children includes post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD),dissociative symptom, depression, absence of emotional
reactions, anxiety disorder, self-blame, helplessness and meaninglessness,
nightmares, boundary issues, anger and rage control problems, suicidal and
self-harm thought sand attempts, inability to sustain adequate self-care and sleeping
problems. Through sustained individual therapy and group sessions, girls have
made remarkable journeys towards healing and self-actualization and have
endorsed the therapy.
This book,
‘Rescue and Remedy: A Process Documentation of Psychotherapy with Children in
Institutions’ is an outcome of documenting the process of this change and aims
towards providing a model of psycho therapeutic intervention for working with
children who have survived trauma and abuse.
Ms. Pooja Taparia, Founder & Chief
Executive of Arpan exclaimed “The book provides a lot of hope that therapeutic
support can become a powerful catalyst to healing and empowerment of children
and will surely evolve as a model to help other organizations in the
implementation of similar initiatives.” Pooja started her work on CSA in 2006
and has grown from a team of 3 to 50 professionals who runs various programs,
workshops, teachings, training's and counseling services to deal with CSA. Arpan
has so far helped over 100,000 children and adults directly through its
services and 300,000 individuals indirectly through training's and advocacy. Arpan's key project ‘Personal
Safety Education Program (PSE)’ empowers children with skills, knowledge and
attitude so that they can identify and seek help in unsafe situations. And
similar program is run for teachers, parents and relevant stakeholders to help
them prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.
Recently in March of 2015, Goldman Sachs made a
donation to Arpan to help fund PSE. Sonjoy Chatterjee,
Co-Head of Goldman Sachs India said, "Arpan does critical work in the very
difficult area of child sexual abuse. The organization has a tremendous mandate
of working to prevent child abuse and helping survivors heal. Through the
publication Rescue & Remedy, their program will continue to give children
an opportunity to realize their dreams and aspirations. Goldman Sachs is honored
to support Arpan since 2011.”
Onir, well-known Director of National Award
Winning Film, ‘I AM’ said, “Mental health of survivors of abuse needs attention;
it is a space where not much has been done. Children need this support to
regain their sense of dignity, self-respect and courage. Arpan has been doing
amazing work in the last few years for awareness and support for Child sexual
abuse survivors. This book will be another milestone.”
“The well-documented book having more than
160 pages is available in an e-book format on the Arpan website,”added Pooja.
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About Pooja Taparia
The founder of Arpan, Pooja is a graduate in Applied Art/Graphic Design
and in Commerce. Coming from a business family she is an entrepreneur, having
invested considerable time in setting up her family business and managing a
number of high-profile freelance design print and web media projects for
companies and individuals.However, Pooja has spent most of her professional
career working in social change and development. She has spent over 8000 hours
working in the voluntary sector, mainly investing her time, expertise and
resources with an educational institute based in Gujarat, India before starting
Arpan.
Pooja envisages Arpan becoming an international level resource agency on
CSA postively changing the lives of millions of children in India and in the
world through its direct work as well as through its partnerships and capacity
building activities with like minded organizations and individuals. Pooja was
awarded the ‘Karmaveer Puraskaar’ award by INCONGO in year 2010 for her work on
Child Abuse. Pooja has recently been awarded the Architects of the Future Award
2013-14 and her life work has been permanently put up as a part of the Waldzell
Collection, in the Melk Abbey, a museum in Austria. Pooja was selected for the
Ford Motor Company International Fellowship of the 92Y, School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University in the city of New York in 2012. She
was also invited to the White House in May 2012 to share Arpan’s work at a
civil society consultation on gender based violence. Pooja is a Director on the
Board of UnLtd India and plays an advisory role on their strategies and
programs.
About Arpan:
Arpan is an award* winning organization working hard to address the
issue of child sexual abuse in India. As we all know that the prevalence of
child sexual abuse is very high, but very little is being done about it. Arpan
provides prevention and intervention services to children and adults. Arpan
aspires to reach out to millions of more children and adults to safeguard the
innocent and vulnerable children and hopes to scale by building new engagement
models with schools around the country.Arpan is supported significantly by Mr.
Rakesh& Rajesh Jhunjhunwala and the R. Jhunjhunwala foundation.
*Arpan won the CFBP Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2011 the NGO India Award 2011
for it's exemplary work in the NGO sector. Arpan also recently won the NGO
Global Excellence Award 2015 in the category of Child Rights, the Dasra Girl
Power Award 2014-15 in the category of Safety and Mobility.
To know more about Arpan, Log onto: www.arpan.org.in
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