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http://live-advocacy.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/W165-0455-004_Low_res_comp.jpg800534Portrait of the Sapna Girls Power group in Basanti along with Debu Patra, a Community Development facilitator working in the West Bengal Combat Child Trafficking For Sexual Exploitation Project. (January 2020) According to Debu, ‘’Through these groups, our girls have learnt how to fight for their freedom and their rights. Whenever any incident happens with a child in the community, they immediately inform us. Childline has also observed that places that see high reporting of cases are those where World Vision has formed these girl power groups. These groups are instrumental in giving accurate and timely information to help stop child marriage or trafficking in the community,’’ says Debu. The Sapna girl power group has handled cases of school dropouts, eve teasing, trafficking and have also called the Childline 1098 in certain other cases.