An 18-year-old choked up while recounting her child marriage horror. Smriti Irani took her hand in hers to encourage the young woman to go on.
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00:00You manage money, but you didn't get a cake for a fat minister.
00:24Hello, everyone.
00:26My name is Gulabshah Parveen.
00:28I am from a small village in Bihar called Masauri.
00:32When I was 15 years old, my grandparents forced me to marry a 55-year-old man.
00:46I was already married and had 8-10 children.
00:50The next day, my in-laws started abusing me.
00:58They started torturing me in many ways.
01:02When I told my family about this, they said,
01:06you are married now, we can't help you, you have to stay there.
01:11When I couldn't take it anymore, I left my in-laws' house and went to a central home.
01:19I was starting a new life there, I was studying there.
01:23I was made the director of the central home for a day.
01:28I told them about the safety of the children and their future.
01:41When I was 18 years old, the central home called my family and sent me home.
01:49When I went home, things were already so bad.
01:53My family started to talk to me about my whereabouts.
02:03They started to abuse me.
02:06When I couldn't understand anything, I informed Rashmi ma'am and Shani didi.
02:14They told me about Hello Small LLP.
02:18I talked to Neha and invited her to my home.
02:25I went with them.
02:27After going there, I got to know about the world.
02:31I got to see a new world.
02:33I got a new name, which people know me as Dara Sandaliya.
02:39I studied there, did a computer course, learned how to drive, how to do accounting.
02:52There are 28 girls in our organization, who are in different positions.
03:00One of them is the manager of a factory and the other one is the manager of a factory.
03:05Some of the girls work in a factory and some in a soybean factory.
03:10I am one of the five girls who have created a shop.
03:18I am the manager of that shop.
03:26I manage everything there.
03:30You manage money, but you didn't bring a cake for the minister.
03:34If I get a chance, I will bring a cake for him.