Kashi was merely fourteen when she was sold by her mother to her maternal uncle and spent six months in captivity, entertaining customers in a brothel. She was rescued in 2020, but justice was yet to be realized. At her uncle’s trial,
A father came to JVI’s Justice Hub partner for help concerning his missing child, Vikram. The ensuing investigation uncovered a disturbing trend –more missing children in three neighboring villages. A trafficker targeting and coercing children in impoverished villages was promising secure jobs
Khushboo is getting ready for another day of training in a hotel management course on the road to her dream of sharing the gift of hospitality. Her journey to this moment has required courage and hard work. For Khushboo, healing entails processing
Khushboo was just 15 when discovered in a brothel in the north Indian state of Bihar. She was one of four girls being sexually exploited. The conditions they faced were horrendous; all of them were drugged and severely beaten to ensure they
Dhonu, Faneel and Bhajan grew up not too far from each other – Dhonu and Faneel in Nepal and Bhajan just across the border in northern India. As children of lower caste families, they faced extreme poverty due to discrimination. Yet they
After being trafficked and sexually exploited at a young age, Sabina is now close to completing her vocational training in sewing while she continues to live in a JVI partner’s safe house. Sabina grew up in a poor family in West Bengal.
In the last quarter of 2022, twenty-seven families were freed from generational bonded labor through the efforts of a JVI Justice Hub in northern India. For three generations, these families – 121 people total – had been held in agricultural bonded labor, a
On Dec 12, a JVI Justice Hub led by three local partners collaborated with local authorities in rescuing two minor girls from sex trafficking and arresting fifteen suspects involved in the case. The 16- and 17-year-old girls were being exploited in a brothel
One, two, three, four. Stolen. Four teenage girls, the youngest: a mere 13-year-old. Children really. These four children were rescued from a sex-trafficking location in Kathmandu, Nepal, thanks to JVI and our partners. Their stories, however, do not start in the bustling,
Dear Friends, Thanks to your support and prayers, JVI is deeply impacting communities through strategically located Justice Hubs in high prevalence areas for human trafficking and extreme injustice. Govind and his wife Lata were rescued, along with 125 others, from bonded labor
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