VICTIM ASSISTANCE
BBA is known for its multi-faceted intervention model, which includes raid and rescue operations to liberate enslaved children and the provision of follow-up care in BBA’s rehabilitation centers.
In the 1980s and 1990s, no adequate law on child trafficking and exploitation against children was in place and intervention was not only challenging, but genuinely dangerous. Few BBA activists have even lost their lives in raid operations and our team has frequently been attacked. The danger of retaliation through employers of child labour remains also today. We are now working in 18 states and have until now rescued more than 82,800 children from the carpet industry, glass industry, brick kilns, stone quarry processes, the shoe industry, Zari/ embroidery industry, the domestic sector and other hazardous occupations and processes.