Homeless and parentless children often have few opportunities in adult life. A lack of education and community support predisposes them to society's least appealing jobs. Combine that with deliberate exploitation and they can be drawn into criminality and antisocial networks.
For young women, the sex trade can be a typical destination that is difficult to escape. Enabling and supporting young women is a crucial goal for NGOs and governmental organisations. Slumdogs and Myriad Dreams is attempting to fund that crucial final stage of education that provides young women with skills and trades to enable them to provide for themselves.
The Times of London has an interesting and moving portrait of the daily life of a prostitute, Laskar, in Calcutta . Link Here
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