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Bhubaneswar: Beginning March 18, US Consulate General, Hyderabad, and Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala are to embark on a caravan campaign against human trafficking, which will cover all 30 districts of the state. An eight-member team, including four victims of trafficking, is part of the campaign that will also feature screening of Oriya documentaries on human trafficking, display of posters. The victims will share their experience with visitors.
“The team will hold sensitisation programmes in rural and sensitive areas of all the districts. The victims will narrate their ordeal and experts will tell how families can protect themselves against the menace,” Sunita Krishnan, the founder of Prajwala, said.
The movement christened ‘Swaraksha’, the organisers said, will make people aware of how the network of human smugglers operates and how they lure young men and women into the trade.
The caravan will enter Orissa March 18 through Gajapati district and will end the campaign in Bhubaneswar May 18. ‘Swaraksha’ had been initiated in January and was scheduled to cover Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Orissa. Till date, it has covered 18 districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The state women and child welfare department, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and other local organisations are extending their support for the project. Representatives from the state women and child welfare department Wednesday said all possible support will be given to the project and that district collectors have been instructed to extend support to the campaign.
Achyuta Samanta, founder of KISS, said the campaign was courageous and that the institution would extend its support to make it successful.
