Pioneer Triveni Acharya

India

Triveni Acharya lives in India. She rescues between 300 and 400 girls from trafficking each year, with her organisation Rescue Foundation and the help of the local police. Every year, between 5000 and 7000 Nepalese girls are sold in brothels in the Indian red light district. They are shut up for days, starved, beaten, burnt with lit cigarettes and raped, untill they are completely weakened. They are forced to provide sexual services to more than 25 clients per day.

Once a girl has been sold to the brothels and has worked there, society gives them the cold shoulder. Their parents are ashamed of them, they have become a disgrace to the family.“The reintegration of the girls into society is an extreme challenge. They are given a negative label, they are behind in their education, and they have psychological and emotional problems,” says Triveni.

Triveni needs help!

Triveni has set up three rescue homes for the victims of trafficking. For the centre in Pune she needs a car, to pick up the girls from the brothels, to take them to court to make a witness statement and to bring them to the hospital for medical treatment.

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