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SMI nun wins SATA 2023 Award for combating trafficking
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SMI nun wins SATA 2023 Award for combating trafficking

News written by: Fr. C.M. Paul SDB

Salesian Family member Sister Seli Thomas of Sisters of Mary Immaculate won the inaugural Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards (SATA) 2023. The nun, Sister Seli, a member of Sisters of Mary Immaculate in Krishnagar, West Bengal, received the award at a function in London on October 31, along with two other nuns from Nigeria and Thailand.

The three nuns have been rescuing women from networks that profit from sexual and labour trafficking. "They have demonstrated courage, creativity, collaboration and achievement in the protection of their communities from human trafficking", the citation read. 

Human trafficking includes forced labour, sex trafficking, child labour, organ trafficking and forced marriage. The Sisters of May Immaculate, founded by Salesian Bishop Louis L.R. Morrow of Krishnagar in 1942, is a member of the 32-member Salesian Family. There are some 130,000 religious women working in India.

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