Ranita Roy

Freelance Visual Storyteller

www.ranitaroy.com

Missio_Human trafficking in North east India

Location: Kolkata

Nationality: Indian

Biography: Ranita is available for assignments. email: ranita30roy@gmail.com Ranita Roy is a freelance Visual Storyteller currently based between Kolkata and Pune, India. Her work evolves between reality and the dream world. She completed... MORE

Tea Garden at Doomni, Baksa in ... is going on in the Tea Garden.

Tea Garden at Doomni, Baksa in Assam, where Bijoya Biha is currently working. The process of watering is going on in the Tea Garden.

Bijoya Biha, 35 years old woman...ough to run a family".

Bijoya Biha, 35 years old woman, educated till 4th standard, picking tea leaves in the tea garden at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. She told "The wages of Tea Garden is not enough to run a family".

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...d, educated till 10th standard.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard iis walking in Tea Garden at Doomni, Baksa Area in Assam with her brother Sumit Biha (8 year old) studying in class one, Bijoya Biha (35 years old), educated till 4th standard and her father Raphael Biha, (42 year old, educated till 10th standard.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...g her duaghter's story.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is emotionally sharing her story of trafficking at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. Her mother, Bijoya Biha, (35), educated till 4th standard is listening her duaghter's story.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...ll of us (the girls)."

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. She still can remember "I reached at a place with the boy whom I treated as my friend, along with many other girls, actually I realised a Muslim agent who was waiting there to purchase all of us (the girls)."

During Counselling, Elisha Biha...andard at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

During Counselling, Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard, Albinush Tigga, (35) on behalf of AASAA, Elisha's mother Bijoya Biha, 35 year old lady and educated till 4th standard and Elisha's father Raphael Biha, 42 years old and educated tilll 10th standard at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...wdung at Doomni, Baksha, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is cleaning her room with a mixture of water, mud and cowdung at Doomni, Baksha, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...r work at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is doing all her household work as her mother goes to the tea garden for work at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...y oven at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is putting fire on a handmade clay oven at Doomni, Baksa, Assam.

Hand of Elisha Biha, 16 year ol...e will be better now."

Hand of Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard in her room at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. She hopes that "My life will be better now."

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...I was not trafficked."

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is sitting in her room at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. She regrets that "My life could have been different if I was not trafficked."

Elisha Biha, a sixteen year old... boy, in Doomni, Baksa, Assasm.

Elisha Biha, a sixteen year old girl, on the right side, is playing with her sister Sumitra Biha, a 12 year old girl, on left side and brother Sumit Biha, a eight year old boy, in Doomni, Baksa, Assasm.

Sr Nisha, (Bed MSW), a 49 years...ndard at Doomni, Baksha, Assam.

Sr Nisha, (Bed MSW), a 49 years old lady is counselling Elisha Biha, a 16 years old girl, educated till 7th standard at Doomni, Baksha, Assam.

Elisha Biha, a 16 years old gir...to reudce her working pressure.

Elisha Biha, a 16 years old girl, educated till seventh standard in Doomni, Baksa, Assam. She wish "I want my life to be better. I would like to work, earn money and extend my hand towards my mother to reudce her working pressure.

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl a...e been bitten by him."

Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl and educated tilll 7th standard is sitting in her room at Doomni, Baksa, Assam. Sadly she informed that "my father drinks a lot and frequently I have been bitten by him."

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Thumbnail of Elisha Biha, 16 year old girl an_ I was not trafficked."

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Thumbnail of Sr Nisha, (Bed MSW), a 49 years _andard at Doomni, Baksha, Assam.

Thumbnail of Elisha Biha, a 16 years old girl_ to reudce her working pressure.

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Public Story

Missio_Human trafficking in North east India

Copyright Ranita Roy 2023

Updated May 2021

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According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), more than 40 million people are victims of slavery and human trafficking every year. Due to the great poverty, human trafficking is more common in the north-east of India than in other states. Young women, whose career are particularly affected, whose career prospects are often limited to poorly paid work in the tea plantations in Assam, are particularly affected. The Centre of Development Initiatives (CDI) of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians, supported by missio, looks after trafficked girls and their families in the city of Guwahati.

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