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A relief camp called Deosri relief camp which is under Chirang District camp is consisting of 240 households. Deosri relief camp is situated between the border of Bodoland and Bhutan. It takes one and half hours to reach Deosri relief camp from Kokrajhar town. Mary is a school dropout girl and was living in the relief camp since its inception. She faced similar experience of being an inmate of the relief camp at the age of six (6) years old. During the riot she was compelled to leave her going to the school.
She wanted to continue her studies but she didn’t receive any support neither from the Govt. nor from her community to continue her schooling. She stayed 5 years in the relief but when she completed her 11 years of age she was compelled to work as domestic servant by looking into her family situation. At the 11 years of age she was being recruited by the agent and agent took her to Siliguri, West Bengal. The agent sold Mary to one of a Hotel in Siliguri. When she realised that she has reached to hotel immediately she tried to run away from the particular place but the hotel people did not allow
Mary to go out by saying that they have already paid the agent for bringing her. Mary was compelled to work in the hotel for 2 years without payment and in the hotel she was being exploited by the people around in that particular hotel. After getting the information of Mary, parents were shocked to know that she has been sold by the agent in the hotel. Mary’s parents along with the President of the relief camp rushed towards the police station of Chirang district to file an FIR and they also submitted the copy of the same to NEDAN Foundation.
NEDAN Foundation took up the initiative of rescuing Mary from the employer in Siliguri. While the process of rescuing Mary was happening one fine day Mary parents got to know that she disappeared from the place where she was working. The missing Mary FIR was filed by the hotel owner in Siliguri police station. Since then Mary is nowhere to be seen and she remained in the police record as missing children.
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