Mumbai sex workers daughters rock the stage in NYC
It is not uncommon for teenage girls to have dreamed of performing on a stage in New York. However, they can be tough to achieve if they are daughters of Mumbai sex workers.
One of them, Danish Shaikh, 16, had never been on a flight, in addition to to a different country, before she goes away for the large Apple with a dozen of her contemporaries at the top of last week.
The girls were on the first leg of a tour of u. s., performing arts the Lal Batti Express: a series of short skits regarding the stigma they’ve experienced a product of the red light district.
The trip was organized by the non-profit-making Kranti, that was established to empower women from these areas, and raised the funds for the excursion.
Kranti is predicated in Mumbai out of a three-bedroom flat and is home to sixteen women whose mothers couldn’t take care of them. 13 of them are within the U.S. currently on the tour that’s meant to show them a way to influence society permanently.
Their 1st performance in America was Thursday evening in a little theatre in downtown new york, simply hours after they landed. The stories are based on real-life drama they’ve lived and they are performed in Hindi.
Image Credit: Bojan Cvetanović / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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