Sivanageswar Rao named her Trisha

After the raid that took place at Kamlapuri Colony a couple of days back, the children both maids and rag pickers were taken to a transit home run by a missionary in Bolakhpur in Musheerabad. So far none of the employers have contacted this place to enquire about the children or to take them back. Since this a strange place for them all of them are aggressive and defensive, refusing to talk and are preferring to remain in groups.

These children will be bathed, fed, given clean clothes and given education for the next few months. This is run in co-operation with the National Commission for Labour an dthe Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan. An exam will be conducted after three months to guage their level of understanding and they will be sent to hostels.

Now director Sivanageswar Rao was in the news because he is a celebrity. He had hired a girl who is less than 14 as a maid for cleaning dishes and mopping the home. When she was taken by the Task Force she was under ‘training’ in the director’s house. Trisha says, “My name is actually Sridevi but the director had re-named me Trisha. I like this name,  I know it belongs to an actress. I don’t like this place (the missionary), I want to go back to the director’s house. I want to work and I don’t want to study.”

Since two days the missionary had been contacting them and there was no response from them. While taking Trisha the Enforcement Team gave them an application with the details of the place where the child would be retained. Trisha is from Chinnagollapalem, a place near Yelamanchili in Vizag. She has no father and she lives with her mother, brother and grandmother. They make a living by collecting twigs in the forest.

The mother sent Trisha to hyderabad with a broker named Tilak and he brought her to Sivanageswar Rao’s house where she was being trained to work as a servant. Trisha has no idea as to how much she is being paid and doesn’t know how much Tilak had given his mother. Ancy, the sister in the transit home says Trisha ‘acted big’ and sought to be left free because she came from a filmi family, but now she understands she cannot go home.

There are many children both from the street and homes who are being exploited, they are all brought here. Yesterday when I had been there all of them were watching ‘Lady Boss’ and were having a whale of a time but the moment they saw us when we went there for follow up action, theys tarted clinging to us to be taken home. Most kids are from Mehboobnagar district. A girl’s parents were infected with HIV, some of them are suffereing from scabies and mostly they all need emotional help and counselling.

There are kids who have been left free on the insistence of the employers who have shown false age proof but are now back after the second and third time here thanks to the raids. The boys are kept at Don Bosco Boys hostel. Sivanageswar Rao garu, Trisha is staying at Auxilliam Navajeevanam Transit Home for Girls.