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[Applause]
rajkumari is waiting for customers at the
roadside she has a young baby to feed at
luck rajkumari is one of the hundreds of
thousands of Indian women in
institutionalized sex work in a practice
[Music]
just 3 hours away from India's capital
New Delhi is a starkly different world
I'm traveling to a cluster of villages
known for sex work this is G GOI a
village in the district of alare in the
Rajasthan here I'm meet Anita who is a
sex worker at her request we have
changed her
name she says she's of legal age but
doesn't look it Anka is getting ready
for a client her clients include men
from nearby Villages truck drivers or
migrant workers that pass through on the
highways and young men with disposable
incomes she joined the profession 3
years ago and says it was by choice as
it enables her to support her
family I know from my father that my
aunt also worked like this I got into
Poverty how much are you earning at the
moment about 60 to 70,000 rupees per
month around
€750 apart from me no one in my family
can find work we were starving we need a
roof over our heads we need to build a
house and my sister needs to get
married do you have any debt I paid it
all off how much was it about
€1,000 oh that's a lot did you pay that
years having to borrow money traps many
families here in a vicious cycle Banks
do not lend money since they do not
consider sex work as
work so these families turn to local
lenders who charge exorbitant interest
rates making them even
poorer RNA we also changed her real name
is the eldest of a total of seven
siblings due to high debt she also has
to work as a prostitute like her mother
and her
aunt I was 15 when I understood what it
was all about and at the same time it
became more and more clear to me how
poor we
are so I got
in what was the
situation my little siblings always had
to beg for
food we have no real house no land
nothing at some point the money that my
mother earned here as a sex worker
didn't suffice so she had to go to
Mumbai in hotels you can earn
so it became clear to me that it was the
only way to make money and essentially
for us to survive one day I finally said
to her I don't want you to do this I
will take care of this I am now the
family rashna went to Mumbai through an
agent who recruited her by contacting
local pimps in an elaborate sex trade Network
Network
there are an estimated 3 million sex
workers in India between ages 15 and 35
sex work is legal in India pimping and
human trafficking are
not this is a matter of survival for
many like RNA they are abused in the
system but stay for lack of any other
work when I was very young I had a
me instead he beat me black and blue and
clothes I ran after him but couldn't
take them
there is a stigma attached to these
Villages as the people here belong to
the bottom of the cast
hierarchy nuts Bia banara and kjer where
these women come from have traditionally
been nomadic tribes they move from place
to place they're scattered all over but
many are in the states of madhia Pradesh
before the women were driven into sex
work these ethnic groups worked mainly
as performers dancers jugglers acrobats and
and
magicians because of their work and way
of life the British colonial power
viewed these ethnic groups as a
threat in 1871 they were criminalized
under the criminal tribes act which was
only repealed at the time of India's independence
stereotypes about these tribes still
persist in society and makes it almost
impossible for them to start other
livelihood I went to meet male members
community there's a lot of
discrimination no one wants to give us
decent jobs
that would mean we could climb up and
out of our
misery people don't want that so there's no
change how do you determine that how is
life they won't even stand or walk next
to us because we belong to a low
cast They tell us to go away but it's
getting better as more and more of us
school otherwise they wouldn't let us
homes in school nobody would sit next to
me I wouldn't even show my ID card
fearing retaliation and humiliation
because of our
cast some children here don't know who
their father is of course the mother's
customers don't give names but this is a
problem because in many places you can
only be officially registered with your
father's name so these kids fall through the
the
cracks but women have been able to
challenge some gender roles by becoming
winner those who make money are strong
our women are strong they support the
shots the women are ahead of us here
they are immensely
respected these women are able to bring
income to the families build properties
and make homes they can pay off Family
debts which not many women in India can
do some eventually leave the village and
move to the country's major Urban
centers to Delhi Mumbai or Kolkata some
even as far as
Dubai husbands fathers and brothers of
the sex workers are involved in enabling
this trade and contributing to the
family economy they act as pimps but
children but there are women who are
completely on their own this can be
difficult especially when they get older
snata only had one daughter who also
worked as a sex worker then she died
probably from a sexually transmitted disease
disease
I don't have any other kids she died she
ill most of the women we spoke to would
like to move on from this life Anka
dreams of marriage when she's done
family rashna does everything to give
her child a decent education which she
however something is slowly changing in The
The
Villages I meet goodu nagar a teacher
who is supported by an NGO working to
work today's lesson is about
grammar he believes a good education
will help the women find safer ways of
employment group of words which gives a
called this has already worked for a few
families one girl even managed to get
into the police force in je the nearest
major city
another family has several children in
medical professions one boy is a left
technician two girls are study one is
going to become a
doctor in these families no woman works
worker nagar belongs to the same tribes
his relatives were in the sex trade
too he wanted to break the cycle he
started by teaching himself to read and
relatives our nomadic way of life was
one of the reasons it was too difficult
for us to escape our misery I have four
brothers none of whom went to school and
some of my sisters are still illiterate
I was lucky after I had taught myself a
few things a social worker from an NGO
helped me today I have an official
teacher there are stories like this but
few and far between members of the
community are trying to change the
destiny of the Next Generation It's
It's
s n I'm Nancy and I want to be an air
hostess one day why an air hostess it's
yes our desperate hope is simmering that
through education and knowing their
rights these women can leave the
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