Amirbi Sikander Sheikh: Empowering Sex Workers
Amirbi is a madame who runs a brothel at the Swaroop Talkies area in Sangli, Maharashtra. The red light area has the second highest number of HIV/AIDS patients after Mumbai. But she wants to change that. She runs what she calls a ZERO budget school for sex workers where they are taught English, Hindi, Maths and basic life skills. Empowered with education, the women are now sending their children to government schools and some of these children now help educate their mothers.
Red light areas are dirty places. But Sangli is an exception because it is clean. It begins with the railway station, which has been awarded the second cleanest station’s title in Maharashtra. A five-minute auto-rickshaw ride takes you to Dusshera Chowk. Through clean roads canopied by huge trees, you arrive at a small junction. A clean swept road from there leads to Sangli’s red light area. Pink doors on pink walls flank the street. There are no open drains with floating condoms in them. A decorative rangoli adorns the doorstep of every house. A few young girls stand next for more details....http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/1083780/FeaturedArticles/14/54/14
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