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RUKSANA
“I was only 12 when I came with my mother across from a small town in Bangladesh to India. We halted in Kolkata for a few days and then...
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Meena
Meena is an orphan girl, who was trafficked and sold at Pune at the age of 13. She was beaten and tortured like all other trafficked women
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kajal
Human Trafficking Survivor
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Shenaya
I, Shenaya, grew up in Mankhurd, Mumbai, and was also called Pinky by my family. I used to go with my mother to work on construction...
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JULIE
I grew up in Karnataka born into a family that sold me as a Devadasi. My mother had two husbands, both of them died when I was 4 years...
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SHYLA*
I was married off at the age 17. I completed my 11th grade but got married before I completed 12th grade. My husband was without work and...
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MUNNI
I come from a small village in West Bengal. I was four years old when my older sister was offered a job by a neighbor. My mother thought...
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MUSKAN & ROSHNI
I come from a small, poor village in Bangladesh. I got married at a young age and gave birth to my beautiful daughter. Coming from a poor...
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SOWMYA
I grew up in a very impoverished home in one of the flood hit villages of Bangladesh. I wanted to study but my parents couldn't afford to...
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SHRUTI
As a 14 year old girl in India, I should normally be studying in class 9, playing with my friends and enjoying my childhood. But that's...
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SHAMA
I was a young carefree girl playing and enjoying myself as a child. One day suddenly my world was turned upside down. When I was 14 my...
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PRERNA
I was the apple of my father’s eyes, protected by my brothers, loved to bits by my mother and pampered by all my family and relatives. I...
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NUTAN
Growing up in a village far away, I simply knew my parents were in Mumbai to earn a living for me and my 3 siblings. What I didn't know...
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NALINI
I grew up in the temple where the priests told me that my parents died after I was born. I don't remember seeing them. I became a young...
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MALA
I called my husband by his name, and my in-laws, who were people I saw on an everyday basis before marriage as 'dada','dadi' (terms for...