By Priya | Rescue Project Director
Namaste everyone.
I hope this update finds you all well.
Your important support helps to maintain and develop our work, and ensures rescue operations like the one below are able to continue. It is vitally important and as ever our gratitude to you on behalf of all the children goes to you from Rescue Junction.
This is from an article in the local press...
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) and social activists on Thursday rescued six minors from traffickers who were taking the children on a train from Sasaram in Rohtas to Rajasthan for child labour.
The six children, four from Gaya in Bihar and two from Tilaiya in Jharkhand, were rescued from the general compartment of the train.
The arrested traffickers admitted that they were taking four children to a salt factory in Ajmer and two to a cashew processing unit in Jaipur, where the children would be kept in a room and forced to work for 10-12 hours a day for a salary of 8,000-10,000 per month. (Approximately $25 or £19 a month)
A case under relevant provisions of Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act and the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the arrested persons. While they are being interrogated, the children have been handed over to Child Helpline authorities. (Rescue Junction0
As always if you are ever coming to India, please visit our projects and see for your self the work at first hand,
With heartfelt thanks for your support,
Priya
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