Women and Girls Renewing the Earth and Rebuilding their Lives

The Emancipation Network's newest project is to build a biodiesel plant in Boisar, India, at the Rescue Foundation shelter for survivors of brothel slavery. The plant will enable us to train survivors in renewable energy management, agriculture, and animal husbandry, and will provide dairy products and fuel for the shelter home. Excess energy and dairy products will be sold locally to provide sustainable income for the survivors and shelter

The Rescue Foundation, one of India’s most respected and effective rescue and shelter and rescue organizations, houses 100 young slavery survivors on a 40 acre farm in Boisar, less than an hour from Mumbai, India.  Rescue Foundation pulls hundreds of girls each year from Mumbai's notorious Kamathipura red light district, which houses a captive population of 200,000 women and children.   Survivors are given medical care, counseling, legal aid, education and excellent care in a loving environment at one of RF's three shelter homes, including the farm.

The farm shelter currently spends $900 a month on fuel for cooking and electricity, and $500 on dairy products to feed the girls iving there. The shelter also struggles to find sustainable employment for older girls and young adults, due to the extreme stigma surrounding trafficking/prostitution, and the lack of available local jobs for poor and untrained women.

We plan to install a Cattle Dung-based Biogas Plant on the property., recycling dung from cattle on the farm, and employing the survivors to maintain the facility and care for the animals. This facilty will be profitable, but just as importantly it will train the survivors in dairy and farming skills that will help them reintegrate into their communities.

The shelter’s cooking and heating needs will be provided by the renewable energy plant, and  30 cubic meters will be available for sale to the grid. The milk from the cows will generate an additional $36,000 per year in dairy profits.

We are building and seeking funds for the project in two phases, the fist of which includes the constuction and some cattle, and the second of which involves purchasing the cattle need to get to capacity.  Click here to learn more or Donate  through GlobalGiving