A.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.

C.Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS):

Integrated Child Protection Scheme ( I.C.P.S.)- Open Shelter Home for the Boys under ICPS: Gana Unnayan Parshad has been working for the Comprehensive development of the children at risks since 1990 and has been successfully Completed Integrated Programme for Street Children ( I.P.S.C.) in Kolkata Municipality areas. GUP also running Child Labour and Shikshalaya Prakalpa in Kolkata Municipal Areas. As an experienced and expertised NGO working in the filed of Child Development, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India entrusted GUP to implement Open Shelter Home for Boys under the newly launched Scheme named as Integrated Child Protection Scheme at Bosepukur ( Kolkata).
Project Brief: Integrated Child Protection Scheme ( ICPS) is based on the cardinal principles of Protection of Child Rights and best interests of the child. Thus the aims of the Project are to promote the best interests of the child and prevent violations of child rights and to ensure rehabilitation for all urban children in need of care and protection. Thus the Project will focus its activities on children in need of care and protection and children in conflict and contact with the law.

1) To attract above-mentioned target group of children from their present vulnerable life situation to a sage environment;
2) To wean these children away from the vulnerable situations by sustained interventions;
3) To guide these children away from high risk and socially deviant behaviors;
4) To provide opportunities for education and develop their potential and talent;
5) To enhance life-skills and reduce their vulnerabilities to exploitation;
6) To reintegrate these children into families, alternative care and community;
7) To carryout out regular follow up to ensure that children do not return to vulnerable situations.
To fulfil the Objectives of the Project the following activities are undertaken- 1) Improve access to and quality of child protection services; 2) Raise public awareness about the reality of child rights, situation and protection in India, 3) Clearly articulated responsibilities and enforced accountability for child protection 4) Established and functioning structures at all government levels for delivery of statutory and support services to children in difficult circumstances and 5) Introduced and operational evidence based monitoring and evaluation.

Address of Open Shelter: PRERANA
28/1B/1, Bosepukur Road, Kolkata - 700042
Phone: +91-33-65181949/ 2265 2403
Email: gup_rch@rediffmail.com
Apart from that GUP also running 3 Outreach centre at - Parkcircus, Entally, and Picnic Garden.