John,

Abha* was just 13 years old when she started working to provide for her family. She served food for a catering company at weddings and parties. But even while working to exhaustion, she barely made enough to feed them.

Until she met Beeja*.

Beeja was an older girl at the catering company who Abha immediately looked up to, confided in and trusted, even to the point of telling Beeja about being abused by her stepfather when she was younger. Yet Beeja took this trust and exploited it, using the knowledge of her stepfather’s abuse to manipulate her.

Abha thought her days of living in crippling poverty were over. But what Abha didn’t know was that Beeja was about to introduce her to the sex trafficking industry in Mumbai — selling her in houses, hotels and offices around the city.

“I would go to these parties and sometimes they would send three customers to me… So in those days, I would handle 20 to 30 customers in one day,” Abha said.

In the darkest moments of her life, what Abha could not have imagined was that someone was out there looking for her.

John, you can protect young girls like Abha from traffickers like Beeja.

Will you give today to rescue children from slavery?