Abir can go to bed happy and full

The 2.8 million sex workers in India are highly marginalised, vulnerable and unreached due to the burden of severe stigma, the commoditization of personhood, forced poverty and debt bondage. Doubly disadvantaged, their children face even worse consequences in these red light areas, including physical danger, vulnerability to violence and sexual exploitation. Many of these children are kept drugged under the very beds upon which the trade is carried out.

As their mothers work through the night as sex workers, these children wake up late in the afternoon, invariably miss meals and become malnourished. Perishing in hunger, neglect, illiteracy and hopelessness, these children long for the day their childhood would be theirs again.

Three year old Abir hails from the Turbhe red light area, one of the innumerable poverty stricken red light pockets in Mumbai, India. His father, Baldev, is a farmer and does not live with Abir. His mother, Sangeeta, works in the sex trade in Turbhe. Both Abir’s parents are uneducated and they barely earn enough to support their family.

Through your generous donations, the Sahaara Charitable Society can provide Abir with three balanced meals a day as well as two snacks. He can now go to bed without a grumbling stomach because you cared enough to make a difference.

Thank you all so much for your gift to Abir!