Nine year old Whynee and her seven year old brother Sunnie lived on Thane train station in Mumbai, India with their parents who were alcoholics. The two children started coming to the Asha Deep Day Centre, run by Oasis India. It was a chance for them to act like normal kids, and they soon settled into the day centre. Whynee and Sunnie enjoyed playing with the other children and made friends. They also started learning to read and write.
After attending the centre every day for 3 months they disappeared. The project staff were concerned and went to look for them. They found their father who told them a man had offered him money for Whynee and Sunnie. He had sold his own children for the equivalent of about 24 dollars!
As a result of this sad story, Stop The Traffik was born. Today, this is a global movement with more than on thousand member organisations in fifty countries dedicated to fighting human trafficking. For more info visit www.stopthetraffik.org
Source: Hope for Justice
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