Since 2003, the mission's office in Chennai, which now employs three social workers, five investigators, and six lawyers, has obtained twelve hundred release certificates from the authorities, and placed nearly twenty-five hundred freed slaves and family members in aftercare.
If the issuing of release certificates, and subsequent financial compensation does become common practice, it will protect many more people".
And for the first time in Bihar, the local District Magistrate agreed to give these victims release certificates.
In order to receive the government compensation for being enslaved, victims must secure "release certificates" from the government, which officially recognizes their emancipation.
Release certificates are usually given to victims who have already been transported to their place of enslavement, and are in the midst of laboring against their will.
But DDWS struggled to provide these victims with comprehensive support because, until recently, the local government did not recognize that these people in transit were already enslaved, and would not give them release certificates and support services.
Free the Slaves Partnerships Director Ginny Baumann says, "It's an important policy achievement to have release certificates issued while bonded labor slaves are still in transit because many victims are rescued at that point -- and if they don't get practical help, they may get re-trafficked.
Trial lots of amoxicillin and benzyl penicillin were procured directly from the manufacturer with accompanying batch release certificates.
Mr. Obama was tactically smart to release the certificate and marginalize those who continue to keep the matter alive.
