Short Stay Home (SWADHAR GREH) For The Women In Distress:

GUP has been running a Short Stay Home for the destitute women and the women in moral danger since 1995 at NABODAYA center , Rajarhat, 24 Parganas(N).This home has got the capacity of accommodating 30 inmates who are mostly sent or referred by the social Welfare Department, local police station, Panchayets , district Administration and other NGOs. Though it is a short stay home, the inmates live here in a homely atmosphere and provided with food, clothes, regular health check-ups and necessary treatment. They also get the opportunity to have vocational training on different trades like - sewing, knitting, jute handicrafts making, chalk pencil making etc. Some of then have been provided with nursing training in collaboration with St. John Ambulance and local nursing homes. After completion of these training, many of them got jobs in different nursing homes and clinics which has helped them to have a regular income of their own. This has not only enhanced but also strengthen their financial base through regular savings of their income. This savings come to a great help when they go out of this 'home'.
The visitors and other Govt. officials visited this 'Home' on different occasions praised very high about the function of this center. This Short Stay Home has come to a great help for the women in distress, especially for those who have nobody and nowhere to go to tide over the immediate crisis period.
This Short Stay Home is supported by Ministry of Women & Children Dept, Govt. of India.

GUP for its commendable service to the poor and destitute women for a long time Govt of West Bengal ,Dept of Social Welfare has recognized as Service Provider in time of distress for extending all kinds of supports like counseling,shelter,Rehabilitation,to the Poor Destitute women victims affected by domestic violence particularly for one district like North 24-parganas.GUP is working in collaboration with Women Commission and other Net Works for combating the violence against women.

GUP has been organizing Legal Education training programme for awareness generation among the women about their socio-legal, basic human rights, it has also been working relentlessly for motivation of the people en mass to give due respect to the women who should not be treated as an object. Violation of human rights of the women are very much in practice in our society. The women are being tortured both physically and mentally, exploited in different forms and being neglected in different arena of life. Hence, the family counseling centers run by GUP in different strategic places in different States of West Bengal, Orissa, Tripura , Manipur have been proved very much effective to boost up the courage of women to protest against any sort of injustices inflicted on them. Because of appointment of practicing advocates / Lawyers on full time basis in these centers it has been possible to give instant legal aid services to those exploited / deprived women whose cases could not be solved through counseling. Hundreds of such cases were handled by GUP in all the States of its operation for giving justice for those women during last couple of years.
To make women aware of different types of violence and injustices they are victimized of and how to protest against the same, a series of seminars, workshops were organized on the subjects like - impact of domestic violence on women, domestic Violence, Women trafficking, legal rights, Gender Justice, rights of the women laborers, communal harmony and the role of women, women's human rights etc. in collaboration with associate member organizations and groups at different strategic places in all those States mentioned before.
A toll free 24 hour Helpline for the destitute women is also run at the centre. The number of this Helpline is 10925.