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Twenty-six-year-old Usha (name changed) was rescued from a sex workers’ den in Ongole last year.
Forgetting the bitter past, she resolved to live with dignity. She ran from pillar to post for the benefits of the rehabilitation, but in vain. She is now back to her old ways of living.
“This is not an isolated case. Many the victims of human trafficking have similar tales of woes to narrate. They are choosing their miserable ways of life again even after being rescued and the trend is slowly growing. The alarming situation calls for stern measures from the authorities concerned,” says civic society organisation HELP Director N.V.S. Rammohan.
The Ethiopian Hairdresser Rebuilding the Lives of Sex Workers and Migrants
While styling their hair, she gives advice to sex workers at risk of being trafficked.
ADDIS ABABA, March 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Yenenesh Tilahun was 22 years old when she left Ethiopia in search of a better-paid job to support her family.
She first worked on a farm in Lebanon, then took care of an elderly man in Egypt, and finally worked as a maid in Sudan.
While abroad, she was shocked at the way Ethiopians were mistreated by smugglers and employers.
After she fell severely ill, she came home to the capital, Addis Ababa, and vowed she would never leave again. Instead, she would use her experience to deter other women from taking the same dangerous path abroad.