One of the things that irked the district collector was that the bathrooms did not have doors. The girls were also made to change in the hall as opposed to in bathrooms or private rooms.
A bold and progressive project taken up by the Ahiritola Jubakbrinda Durga puja committee, the street graffiti was illustrates tales of hardship and circumstances that push women into the vicious circle of flesh trade
"If women have the power to choose, they can nip unsafe migration in the bud and consequently human trafficking," says Hasina Kharbhih, founder of Impulse NGO Network.
Adarsh Shrivastava, a passenger onboard the Muzaffarpur-Bandra Awadh Express on July 5, made it his business to find out why a group of 26 girls on the train were crying and looking scared.
Reports suggest that close to 1500 cases of children who, as per a UNICEF survey, were trafficked from only five blocks in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district alone, from 2012 to 2014.
The project spearheaded by the group was supported by the Maharashtra state government after heightened international awareness about the key role of hotels in fighting modern-day slavery.