3.9 

Knowledge of Ways to Protect Themselves from Traffickers While Traveling  

Adolescent Group 

A higher percentage of the adolescent girls in the endline survey were able to cite 

different ways  to protect themselves from traffickers while traveling as compared with 

the baseline survey. Among the different ways to protect themselves from traffickers 

while traveling, the commonly cited responses were not eating food given by strangers 

(78% in the endline survey vs. 63% in the baseline survey), consulting with fellow 

passengers (77% vs. 16%), telling the truth about the destination and the relation with 

others (59% vs. 5%), seeking the help of fellow passengers (30% vs. 7%) and informing 

the police (15% vs. 7%).  

It was evident from the tables that the adolescents gained ample knowledge of how to 

protect themselves from traffickers while traveling. It was to be noted that in the baseline 

survey one fourth (25%) of the respondents did not know how to  protect themselves from 

traffickers while traveling (Table 3.9.1). 

Table 3.9.1  

Percentage Distribution of Adolescent Respondents Who Can Protect Themselves 

from Traffickers While Traveling 

Ways to protect self from traffickers while 

Baseline 

Endline 

traveling 

Not to eat food given by a  stranger 

63.1 

78.4 

Consult with other fellow travelers  

16.5 

76.7 

Tell the truth about destination and relationship 

  5.1 

59.1 

Take help of fellow passengers 

  7.4 

30.1 

Inform police 

  7.4 

14.8 

Run away by asking for bathroom 

  2.8 

Not wearing signs of marriage (

sindur, pote

) 

  1.7 

Watch for signboards of different places 

  1.1 

Not talking with strangers 

  0.6 

Don t know 

25.6 

  1.1 

N 

176 

176 

Percentage total may exceed 100 due to multiple responses. 

Peer Group 

Similar to the adolescent group, it was encouraging to find that the knowledge of ways to 

protect themselves from traffickers while traveling among the peer group also increased 

immensely in the endline survey as compared with the baseline survey. 

Among the different ways to protect themselves from traffickers while traveling the 

commonly cited responses were not eating food given by strangers (78% in endline 

survey vs. 49% in baseline survey), consulting with other fellow passengers (65% vs. 

19%), telling the truth about the destination and the relation with others (59% vs. 7%), 

seeking the help of fellow passengers (14% vs. 9%) and informing the police (10% vs. 

9%) (Table 3.9.2).  

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