Aims and objectives of Odanadi

Odanadi's vision is:

    “Justice to the neglected and empowerment of the weak and equality of opportunity for all”

Its aims and objectives are:

  • To organise the prostituted and the trafficked into a vocal group fighting against exploitation and facilitate their own empowerment and rehabilitation;
  • To integrate the children of exploited women into the mainstream and make them self-reliant through counselling, education and vocational training;
  • To prevent women and children from being drawn into trafficking and sexual exploitation;
  • To rescue women and children forced into commercial sex and expose the unholy nexus in the flesh trade;
  • To assist prevention of unsafe rural-urban migration which is a major contributor to urban prostitution and sexual exploitation;
  • To combat HIV-AIDS epidemic and provide care to the terminally afflicted;
  • To eradicate the social taboo and rejection of the trafficked and prostituted through sensitization of various social and peer groups;
  • To expose human rights violations against women and children in all sections of society;
  • To provide support to women and children affected by domestic violence and other social-economic problems;
  • To combat and network against child labour.