REAL LIFE STORIES
These 3 stories have been hugely influential in giving birth to STOP THE TRAFFIK. You can read more real life stories in our book. Follow this link to find out more.
Wihini and Sunni – India
Wihini, aged 9 and her brother Sunni, a boy aged 7, lived on Thane train station in Mumbai, India with their parents who were both alcoholics.
Wihini and Sunni were regular attendees of the Asha Deep Day Centre, run by Oasis India, where they learnt to read and write and were given the
opportunity to play. After attending daily for 3-months they disappeared. The project staff went to look for them. Wihini and Sunni's father
told how a man had come and offered money for them and that he had sold them for the equivalent of $30. That was the last the father and the staff
of Asha Deep Day Centre heard of them. In that area of Mumbai every 2-3 months children disappeared, kidnapped or sold into prostitution, forced
labour, adoption or child sacrifice.
A UK Trafficking Survivor
"Two years ago everything changed. I was trafficked. I was fooled. I was deceived by a man who said that he loved me. The tragedy is that I believed him.
Now I know that love is not shown by forcing me to work on the streets, beating me up, force feeding me and turning me into someone with no mind of my own. I had become like a frightened rabbit. I was terrified that he would kill me. Death
too often felt like my only way to escape.
People are product.
I was one of them.
But I am a survivor.
I have a new life but I am haunted by the faces of those who
used me, those whom I did not choose, those for whom I was
nothing more than a ten-minute thing.
Please join STOP THE TRAFFIK and make a difference to people's lives...
... people like me."
top12 Year Old: My life in a brothel, Cambodia
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