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Don’t tell Brooke Hines that a trip to India is too dangerous. She’s already heard it from her mom, and it isn’t going to stop her.
Hines, of Neosho, is visiting several cities in India for a month-long trip where she will learn about their caste system, culture and human trafficking issues. She will leave Wednesday and return Aug. 20.
“When I go, I will be talking to people just on their views, trying to gain understanding of the caste system and…what role the human trafficking problem plays in the society,” she said.
The trip is part of a project for the McCaleb Initiative for Peace. The project is titled “The Plight of the Dalits: Trafficking in a Complex Culture.”
Hines, a Missouri Southern State University senior international studies major and 2007 graduate of Neosho High School, said she chose to go to India because she’s “very interested in the theme of human trafficking, just because it’s very heinous, so it’s heavy on my heart.”
