NGOs educate students on the 2nd largest crime in the world-human trafficking
MUKESH SHARMA
Kalimpong, November 21:
An informative and
awareness programme on human trafficking was organized by the NGO Glen Family
Foundation with the help of MARG, Darjeeling and Darjeeling Police at St.
Philomena School today. The Kalimpong ASP, Songmit Lepcha presided over as the
chief guest while the resource person was Nirnay John Chettri, Coordinator,
MARG.
Chettri explained at
length to the students that how the youths fall prey to human trafficking,
which is regarded as the 2nd largest crime in the world. Through a
slide show, Chettri showed the pictures of the active human traffickers in the
region. Real life stories of girls who has fallen victim to this crime were
also narrated. Chettri said that the traffickers are in search of those
unemployed youths especially females who are in search of jobs and added that
such individuals decoy the girls by offering god jobs in cities and finally
shove them into prostitution.
Further he said that in
order to stop the sale of human by other humans, the Police, media, drivers,
hoteliers, parents, guardians, youths and every individual needs to be aware.
He also appealed the parents and the guardians to keep a close check on the
activities of their children.
Likewise, ACP Lepcha in
her address said that due to the fewer ratios of the Police in the country, it
becomes easy to trap people. Sharing her work experience, Lepcha said that in
her life she has come across numerous cases of human trafficking. In most of
the cases it was found that the families of the victims are scared to support
him/ her thinking of their prestige in the society. She also informed that any
of the missing reports after 15 days are transformed into kidnapping cases.
Later the students were
also shown an episode of Crime Patrol based on an incident of Darjeeling. An
interactive session was also held during which the students enquired about the
topic.
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