By Priyanka | Rescue Project Director
Namaste everyone,
Firstly may I thank you all for your wonderfull support recently over the end of the year. It will help the work here tremendously
Here is an example of our work. We have changed the name and some other details in accordance with our polices of child protection and confidentialty but the story is true.
This is the story of a girl who will call her Pramilla. ( not her real name). She is at most 14 years of age. Efforts are on to determine her true age.
She was picked up at another station by a man and a woman who took her to their home in Gaya and tried to persuade her to travel to Calcutta for " Work" ( almost certainly prostitution). She bravely resisted and was severely beaten but managed to get to a mobile phone and dialed 1098 ( the emergency toll free childline number) and was put through to a female staff member at Rescue Junction. She was able to give a rough description of the area and was composed enough to even give a house name. Within 20 mins the police broke into the house, arrested the couple, and set Pramilla free. .
On arrival Pramila was understandably distressed but it became apparent she may have some internal injuries and she was immediately admitted to the local hospital. A member of staff, a qualified female counselor was provided around the clock until she had recovered enough to return to rescue Junction where she remains to this day.
She will be supported back into a safe environment in the community under supervision in carefully planned stages.
Plese see a picture of our sewnig centre at the Junction.. more about this in later reports.
One thing I want to tell you is that Pramila wants to help take part in a campaign to bring more awareness of the childline service and will be visiting schools and colleges with our staff shortly. This is because she knew the toll free number because it was on a poster at her school.
Thank you for all of your support in supporting brave children like Pramilla
With Best regards to you,
Priya
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