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Cargo is transported around the world every day – things like TVs, cars and clothes. But every night a different kind of cargo crosses the border from Bangladesh into India.
Each night about 55 young women and girls are smuggled over the border – that’s nearly two classrooms full! In a year that adds up to the number of people who can fit into a football stadium the size of Fulham’s Craven Cottage.
Mostly aged between 14 and 25, many will be sold as slaves, to become unpaid labourers, or abused, taken advantage of and exploited – for instance as prostitutes.
So why would they go?
The answer is that often they have been tricked.
Nasima was from a family of nine. They could not afford to send her or any of her brothers and sisters to school, because in Bangladesh parents have to pay to send their children to school – and her father could barely even feed them.
So when a man offered to help her get a job in India if she paid some money, it seemed to be an answer to prayer. She would no longer go hungry and she could help support her family.
But instead of a job she was imprisoned, beaten almost every day and forced to work as prostitute for over four years until she finally managed to escape.
You can help others like Nasima who have been tricked, trafficked and tortured – together we can set them free.
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