Triveni Acharya Biography 
Triveni Acharya is a journalist and activist from Mumbai, associated with the NGO, Rescue Foundation known for anti-sex-trafficking. The group was founded by her husband, Balkrishna Acharya, and she took over the charge as its president after his death in 1995. The organization has received several national and international awards for its work, and its main aims include - rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of victims for human trafficking in India and neighbouring countries, Nepal & Bangladesh. She became 2013 Humanitarian Honoree of World of Children Award, for her long-term association with Rescue Foundation and her efforts.
Triveni Acharya has been fighting with Sex-Traffickers since 1993. She has rescued and rehabilitated thousands of lives since then. She was working as a journalist for a Gujarati newspaper then. In 1993 as a part of her job, she happened to enter a brothel to check the conditions instead it. To her surprise, she found the conditions to be very pathetic. Earlier she thought that these girls, all decked up in bright lipstick and revealing clothes were prostitutes by choice. But the incident told her that it is not true in most cases. She discussed the case with her husband, and brought up the idea to rescue those girls who don’t want to be a part of this profession.
The NGO Rescue Foundation was founded by her husband, Balkrishna Acharya. She remained her husband’s close associative and supported his activities since the beginning. But when he died in an accident in 1995, she took over the power of this organization. Triveni remained a role model to many, who adopted a son named Luv, whose biological mother committed suicide in a brothel. She has also rescued many kids who are forced to do child labour, and those kids who are employed in factories for fewer wage.
In 2007, Trivani Acharya spent sleepless nights trying to track down two girls who had disappeared after expressing their desire to be rescued from the field of sex trade. It was not just one case. She has worked for hundreds of girls to rescue them from trafficking and prostitution. In 2011, she won the Civil Courage Prize of The Train Foundation, and she shared the prize with Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, a Mexican journalist who also strived for the same.
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Updated: July 02, 2018
