For more than a year, Nasima Gain did not leave her house. She spoke to no one, refused to meet friends and lay in bed.
"I trusted him," she said of a childhood friend who grew up to traffic her."We had planned to spend the day out. He took that chance and trapped us." No date is scheduled for the next hearing but Nasima refuses to give up, despite her frustration with the lack of progress. "My family was happy I was back and I never really told anyone, including my parents, about what I had been through when I was away. Even today they think I was just a dancer at a bar."
"There was nothing to be ashamed of. I realised that I was not alone and it was the trafficker who was guilty," she said.As she discovered fellow survivors, Nasima felt she needed to go beyond her own fate to confront the wider problem. The petition notes that while many survivors live in abject poverty, designated rehabilitation funds lie untapped."Fortunately my family accepted me after the rescue, but in many cases, relatives and society refuse to take them back. If families don't support, then the police will also not support."