A MISSING CASE SPARKED A LIFELONG MISSION FOR PALLABI GHOSH

Imagine going to a village for a vacation and learning that a girl is missing. As a little child, it might not bother you. However, a 12-year-old Pallabi was bothered.

More than 20 years ago, Pallabi visited a village in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal with her uncle. One day, she saw a man desperately running around, saying his daughter was missing, and he had searched everywhere. This shocked her because, coming from the small railway town of Lumding, she knew that in small towns, people usually know each other and their whereabouts. She wondered how a child could go missing, and no one knew anything. Pallabi tried to search for the girl but found no clues. Feeling dejected, she wrote down the names of the missing child's father and the village before returning home.

Her curiosity to understand more introduced her to the term 'trafficking. All the research related to trafficking made her more determined to work towards preventing this crime. She started visiting police stations, completed her graduation and decided to prevent this crime. She joined an organisation to understand more and eventually decided to incept 'Impact and Dialogue Foundation' to start the movement against trafficking.