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“It was after a jarring incident, when a desperately hungry child asked his mother to take a customer, that the gravity of the situation hit me hard.”

A bold and progressive project taken up by the Ahiritola Jubakbrinda Durga puja committee, the street graffiti was illustrates tales of hardship and circumstances that push women into the vicious circle of flesh trade

Sheetal Jain was born in India’s oldest and Mumbai’s largest red light area, Kamathipura. While her maternal grandmother was a commercial sex worker, her mother took to bar dancing to make ends meet.

Author-filmmaker Aditya Kripalani's 'anti-patriarchy' story also bagged the Best Film Award at the Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018!

An incredible initiative to rehabilitate sex workers and their children.

Sex workers usually come from economically marginalised communities where they are often denied the education or skills required to secure employment in the formal sector.

The selected sex workers will be trained from Tuesday right up to the Puja week. This will enable them to run the stalls - right from cutting the fish and cooking it to serving the customers.

Sex workers in India, particularly women, still face a heavy amount of social judgement and stigma, leading to rights abuse for many of them. Dr. Shama Karkal talks about the oft-ignored rights of these women, and the Indian origins of the global movement to recognise these rights.

Bal Asha Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded in October 1985 in Mumbai. For the past 31 years, it has rehabilitated more than 1,500 destitute/abandoned children from various parts of Maharashtra.