KARMA NIRVANA
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Mission Statement
KARMA NIRVANA supports, educates and empowers all those impacted by honour based abuse and forced marriage in the UK, whatever gender, religion or background.
About This Cause
Karma Nirvana aims to SAVING LIVES by REDUCING ISOLATION, INCREASING REPORTING and CHANGING ATTITUDES. This purpose provides us to focus on three areas of priority. REDUCE ISOLATION Is to reduce isolation felt by victims and potential victims of Honour-Based Abuse/Forced Marriage, equip them for survival and create a Karma Nirvana community and active voice. INCREASE REPORTING Is to increase awareness, recognition and incidence of reports by front line safeguarding and education professionals. CHANGE ATTITUDES Is to change attitudes of society at large by increasing awareness, recognition and condemnation of Honour-Based Abuse/Forced Marriage. Karma Nirvana is an award-winning charity that has supported victims of honour-based abuse in the UK for twenty-five years. They operate a national helpline that offers support and guidance to victims and professionals and in 2017 averaged 800 calls per month. Karma Nirvana provide training to the Police, NHS, and Social Services. They act as expert witnesses in court and regularly speak out in schools and host awareness raising roadshows. Karma Nirvana also operate a Survivor Ambassador Panel (SAP) a network that links survivors and enables them to connect and share experiences. The SAP will be open to apostates to join too. For ten years The Home Office have funded Karma Nirvana’s national telephone helpline that offers support to honour based abuse victims and advice on best practice to professionals. To date they have received over 60,000 calls. Karma Nirvana’s founder and CEO Jasvinder Sanghera CBE,is an expert advisor to the courts in matters of child, civil, and criminal proceedings, chairs Domestic Homicide Reviews, and was instrumental in ensuring that UK police forces improve their understanding of honour-based abuse and forced marriage. Jasvinder is recognised as bringing the issue of forced marriage into the public domain and Prime Minister David Cameron stated that her work ‘turned my head on the issue’. After ten years of campaigning, forced marriage became a criminal offence in 2014.