but this young woman with fire in her belly did not just sit back comforting the aggrieved parents twelve brave hearts from west bengal orissa andhra pradesh and karnataka were honoured on the awards day of the godfrey phillips zonal bravery awards 2011 instead she borrowed money to start a dairy farm so that she could invest the savings in starting an organization that would work against human trafficking and thus kuk was born in 2004 this new trend is something very concerning souriya added that same day they also rescued three engineering students of kalayani government college from drowning behera is a physically challenged badminton player kolkata born and brought up in the tea gardens of north bengal it is but natural that rangu souriya would have a soft corner for tea garden workers whose daughters were trafficked gita nag of kolkata was honoured with the special physical bravery award for fighting off armed robbers fearlessly to save her neighbour b chittamma a fisherwoman of orissa was bestowed the amodini award for her exemplary work towards empowerment of poor women one girl however managed to contact her family but she is suspected to have died souriya was among the 12 honoured in kolkata on wednesday the daughter of a tea garden worker in miriks panthabari poverty would have forced souriya into the traffickers trap the mindofsteel award was given to amerendra behera of orissa initially she got involved with affected families known to her personally fishermen narayan rao and sahadeb behera were getting ready on their boat in puri when they saw the tide carrying away four japanese tourists twelve girls were sent out of the country on forged passports in february this year there is no news about the rest the latest trend by traffickers is to smuggle out young girls from closed tea estates of north bengal to gulf countries the two along with tamil selvan of karnatka were honoured with the physical bravery award souriya was honoured with the godfrey phillips social bravery award others awarded in the social bravery category were padma srinivasan dr achyuta samanata and late kanilal datta her zeal finally resulted in kanchanjunga uddhar kendra kuk an ngo that has rescued about 300 trafficked girls in the past few years she took up the cause of girls who were vulnerable to traffickers ends without thinking twice the duo jumped into the sea and rescued the tourists i wanted to do my bit to bring these girls back home and also prevent others from falling prey to traffickers said souriya i just could not sit back and listen to stories about girls from tea gardens going missing