A unique and often unknown aspect of child exploitation is
captivity by employers. Like it happened in the case of young Raghu. He had been promised a better life. And at the age of 10,
he was already in for life's disillusions and pain. Raghu worked
hard at a bookbinding shop in Patna, referred by his uncle. But instead of a decent life and pay, he was punished with captivity. The helpless child was left with the only option of running away
and landed at the Patna Railway junction. He knew his house
was in Asanole, in Kolkota but had no clue how to go back. The Police chanced upon him and referred him to CHILDLINE Patna. Raghu stayed at the Balraksha shelter until the confirmation of
the address given by him. It was at the shelter that he met a
street boy, Binod who had helped repatriate another child earlier. Binod took Raghu along and boarded a train to Asansole. Despite
a ticketless journey, Binod managed to take Raghu to his home and returned the very next day
back to the shelter at Patna. Thus Raghu was reunited with his family through an important link
in the CHILDLINE network-another homeless child.