Building capacity and strengthening livelihood options for women in sex trade

Sex workers face a lot of discrimination in the community and it limits their chances of getting jobs. They are unable to access government schemes and also face difficulty in coming out of sex work as there is no support system for sex workers. Education for their children is difficult, as the society doesn't want them to enter the mainstream.

We aim to provide skills training and create awareness and sensitize them about the available government schemes. We also wish to support sex workers on getting alternative livelihood with the support of government and non-government linkages and help the children to take up education at schools/colleges by creating awareness and making them understand the value of it to reduce the dropout.

About 60% of the sex workers will be able to take up the work. By creating awareness, sex worker were able to avail 70% of the government schemes and Civic IDs. Sex workers will able to take up other professions through government and non-government linkages. Already, about 80% of the children were able to take up education in schools/colleges by creating awareness to them and the drop out rate reduced.