*Meera Pal lived with her mother and brother. They were poor, so Meera began to work as a housemaid at 13-years-old. When she was 15, she...

First Rescue in Allahabad, Jan 2015

February 12th 2014, started out like any other day. Kumar and Mukesh had identified a minor girl and were on their way to Pune’s...

*Mayanka's story. A first-person narrative. I lived with my father, mother, brother, and sister-in-law. We were relatively well-off...

Orphaned in childhood, Gayatri* and her sister lived with their grandmother. When she was still very young, Gayatri fell in love and...

Sandhya* was rescued in March 2011 from Nagpur. Being deaf and dumb, it was easy for the brothel keepers to take advantage of her as she...

Nimu* grew up in a village in West Bengal. She remembers a time of abject poverty in her family when she was young. It was difficult for...

Mina’s* rescue came as a breakthrough in an area where our investigation team encountered numerous pitfalls in the last nine months....

An excerpt of Greg Malstead's investigation report Meerganj, Uttar Pradesh. Setting out in the evening, we took a cycle rickshaw to the...

Last year, Meerganj's red-light area was closed for business because of Freedom Firm's insistent work in Allahabad, a city in Uttar...

First-person narrative When I was in twelfth grade, I used to face a lot of opposition from my father. I enjoyed studying, but my father...

First-person narrative My parents live at Chitradurga, Karnataka, and are unaware if I am alive or dead. I work at Ruhamah and the thing...

Suman's story. A first-person narrative. My family was poor and my father was the only member earning a wage. He stayed in the city for...

Shravya* comes from an impoverished family. Her father earns a daily wage as a farmer and woodcutter. Her mother also works as a farm...

Sajini* was trapped in Nagpur’s red-light district, and she had lost hope of any escape. She was rescued by the police but was...

Freedom Firm first rescued Sita* in February 2013 along with 7 other girls from Nagpur’s infamous red-light district. As per Indian law,...

Day 1 - After dark Jaya* is found in Ganga Jamuna red-light area. She looks 13 to 14 years old and reveals that she has to sleep with...

When Reshma was 16 years old, she fell in love with a man she met at a flower shop. She ran away with him and soon became pregnant with...

Many of our supporters often ask us what it is like to be on a raid and what it involves. Earlier this year, Freedom Firm staff traveled...

Pooja* is one of the bravest girls Freedom Firm has rescued. She was rescued in 2011 from Nagpur, and like many other minor girls found...