Operation Light House - Building HIV/AIDS Awareness amongst port Workers, Truckers, Migrant Labourers, commercial sex workers (C

The project targeted building awareness on HIV /AIDS among truckers and port workers in Khidderpore and Haldia ports in West Bengal, promoting safe sexual practices and mobilising behaviour change so that target groups avail of services at VCTC centres. The project also entailed building capacities of resource groups on theatre based communication methodology in Paradip, Kochi, Tuticorin, Goa, Vaizag. In Haldia and Kidderpore target groups were primarily port workers and truckers. in other five ports target groups also included central Indian Security Forces (guards), CWSs, MSM (Homosexual), local fishing communities and industrial labourers besides truckers and port workers.