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Embroidery crafts for sale at such retailers as West Elm, Nordstrom and Anthropologie, as well as online, aid escape from abuse.
India is home to at least a million sex workers, often girls and young women who are victims of abuse and ill treatment but who feel trapped in the lifestyle, as they have little education or alternative means of making a living.
One bright spot in a seemingly hopeless situation can be found in the northern Indian city of Ajmer, with The Anchal Project, a nonprofit textile business founded by two Catholic women from Kentucky, which has already allowed many women to leave the sex trade.
The Anchal Project began in 2009, when Colleen Clines visited India as part of a college group and learned of the plight of women there.
“I was actually speaking with a representative from an NGO [nongovernmental organization], in the middle of a red-light district, and was told what these women needed most was alternative economic activity,” she told the Register.
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India is home to at least a million sex workers, often girls and young women who are victims of abuse and ill treatment but who feel trapped in the lifestyle, as they have little education or alternative means of making a living.
One bright spot in a seemingly hopeless situation can be found in the northern Indian city of Ajmer, with The Anchal Project, a nonprofit textile business founded by two Catholic women from Kentucky, which has already allowed many women to leave the sex trade.
The Anchal Project began in 2009, when Colleen Clines visited India as part of a college group and learned of the plight of women there.
“I was actually speaking with a representative from an NGO [nongovernmental organization], in the middle of a red-light district, and was told what these women needed most was alternative economic activity,” she told the Register.
Continued below.
Offering ‘Shelter’ to Victims of Sex Trade: The Anchal Project Empowers Women
Embroidery crafts for sale at such retailers as West Elm, Nordstrom and Anthropologie, as well as online, aid escape from abuse.
