By Sunita Sharma | Rescue Project Director
Hi Everyone,
This is Sunita, Director of the Rescue Junction here again with an update for you all.
One thing we have seen here at the centre in recent times is an increase in the number of girls coming to us. This is partly due to our connection with Child Line but also there is a much wider community awareness in the local area now as we have used events ,visits and the media to raise the issues of child abuse and trafficking locally.
But life remains so hard here for so many. Whatever we have achieved and it is a lot, there is much more to be done.
I want to tell a story of just one instance of what I mean. We were amazed to see coming through our door, (as is often the case without any notice), a girl about 14 years of age shuffling into our centre in the company of two police officers. Then we realised she was shuffling because she had been shackled. The Police told us that she had been found by a police patrol on the cities bypass. They brought her immediately to us. We cut the chains at once. We have photographs but we felt uncomfortable in including them in this report as they are distressing and we also thought this would not be appropriate.
After a great deal of comforting and reassurance we found out this girl was a little mentally challenged and had been kept in chains for a long time. We were able to find out the address and arrests followed. We are searching a specialised home for her, this will take six months and in the meantime we are starting to try and repair the damage done to this girl of which the craft training programme plays an important part.
Your kind support is vital to us, in order that we can reach out to more girls in danger and who the victims of abuse. I have asked a girl doing the training and living with us to prepare a report in her own words and this will be a part of my next update so look out for that!
On another note the subject of another report through our appeal on Global Giving Winter warmth for street children we were able to distribute many items of warm clothing and blankets (see photo). And for those in the UK from March 3rd if you give to Global Giving Uk they will give one pound for every two you give for one week only. This is on Global Giving UK only- the link is below
Through your help we are doing what we can and we as always send our heartfelt appreciation to you all.
With Best Wishes for 2014,
Sunita
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