ISLAMABAD: A Dubai-based sales executive who never scaled a tall mountain is training to climb Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, to raise $10,000 for the rescue of human trafficking victims in India.
VJ Nagender Rao, 31, said "We all know that prostitution and human trafficking exists and in India, girls as young as three or four were being raped and forced into human trafficking," Khaleej Times reported.
In India alone, an estimated 200,000 women and young girls, often from the poorest segments of society, are forced into prostitution every year, lured into the trade by the false promises.
Rao said that the money raised through the climb will go to the Rescue Foundation, a Mumbai-based NGO that seeks to rescue and rehabilitate human trafficking victims in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
"What they do is go and rescue girls, and bring them to rehab centres close to where they are, for counselling, " he said. Additionally, Rescue Foundation provides legal aid, healthcare, shelter and vocational training to the rescued victims.
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