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| It takes courage to go undercover and stand face-to-face with a trafficker. But that’s how the women of Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS) track missing villagers who’ve been sold into slavery. Posing as homeowners wanting to hire a maid, SMS activists expose the shadowy world of domestic slavery. SMS finds and rescues women trapped as house slaves, alerts police to slave traffickers posing as legitimate labor recruiters, and teaches entire villages how to prevent traffickers from exploiting poor families. “I dream of a future when girls learn to think that we are not mere commodities,” says SMS activist Swapna Tripathy, “and those days are going to come.” |
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