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On May 13, the Mumbai Smiles team made it possible to rescue two women from a massage parlor in Virar West, Maharashtra. One of them is married and returned to her husband, who we know will [...]

Aswini lives in Satkhira district, Bangladesh, she is 14 years old and has just overcome one of the worst moments of her life, and to a large extent thanks to the entry of a goat in her life. We [...]

India’s 2020 COVID-19 lockdown was one of the strictest in the world, leaving millions of people surviving in the informal economy left to fend for themselves. The added consequences of the [...]

A few days ago we announced the rescue of two girls who were being sexually exploited. This is the story of this rescue. In the beginning of May we received news about two girls who were being [...]

Meena was born in Murshidabad (Kolkata). Her parents and her five brothers and sisters lived in dire financial straits. Her mother was always sick, and neither she nor her siblings could go to [...]

2,000 km from Mumbai, in the Sundarban delta area (West Bengal), lives Soumita. This area is the largest mangrove forest in the world and forms the confluence delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and [...]

Two hours by car, about 85 km, which is the distance between the city of Mumbai and shapur (always by taking into account how traffic is in India). Both are in the state of Maharashtra. The [...]

“I RUN, THEY LEARN” Today we want to share a news which encourages and makes us especially proud of the Udaan shelter, which we have opened for women who have managed to break the [...]

In Nuwakot, Nepal, we work hand in hand with the local organization Chhori, to prevent girls from the poorest rural communities from falling into the hands of human trafficking networks. For [...]

Gita had a humble life with her family in West Bengal. But the truth is that things were not easy, so her parents decided that the girl, at the age of thirteen, would emigrate to Mumbai with her [...]