Friday, June 24, 2011

The NGO Diary: All for love! (part one)

Picture Courtesy: "Painted Bindi" by Gaby Barnuevo

Some time back I met a family from West Bengal, they were visiting my organisations' office to seek help in finding their daughter who was trafficked to the red light area in Delhi. The parents were really heart-broken and could barely comprehend a word in hindi just as little I could understand Bengali. Along with this family came two men both hailing from West Bengal, one of whom was a young man willing to help us with the exact address of the brothel and verify the recent picture of the missing girl.

As I investigated into the connection this young man had with the girl, it seemed like a Bollywood movie in front of my eyes. The young man had been visiting this girl in the brothel for sometime and took a picture of her on his mobile one day. Later, he went back to Bengal to the girl's village to meet her parents and initiated to find there daughter. It was definitely love an endless love between the two that made him come back to help her.