Resurrection:
the journey from dark to light
Zero gravity Against the Tide
Their stories about being tricked into the profession by
known and unknown persons, their dismal health conditions and the torture they
endure shook her up. She learnt how thousands of these women continue to work
in brothels and accept torture because of the absence of any other support, and
for fear of the powerful prostitution mafia. knew without a doubt that she
would work to improve the lot of the women she met then.
Women's groups have traditionally been ideologically split
on the issue of legalization of prostitution.
"This is a situation that begins with rape and a choice
less choice and continues with denial and exploitation.
“ she was silent when they spent time with
each other for his lust an her stomach “ locked in that
small room where she takes so much of pain and where all the other girls sits
outside the walls on late evenings, listless, swatting the mosquitoes that
irritate the miserable compound. The walls are high. In their heart are
countless questions, a quiet dejection eats at them. Motivation is lacking, and
the sighs repeat themselves over and over. When you have big dreams and yet no
sense of direction, what do you do? Cry, become emotionless, that’s how they
sounded then.
Simultaneously, as women and as activists, it is our responsibility
to create the options and the spaces, which would prevent the birth of this
violence.
Our focus is not only on fighting for the rights of the
young girls rescued from brothels but also mainstreaming them in education and
in life itself and to intervene collaboratively with the bureaucracy, police,
legal system and local grassroots governance unit to cut to the root causes of
trafficking through advocacy, lobbying and interventions.
Women empowerment refers to the conferring of leverage to
women who are otherwise deprived. This includes granting to women effectual
decision-making power, the power to influence others decisions along with
economic, social and civil freedom. A pseudo-empowerment process has been
undertaken each time women’s welfare was given consideration to. Female
empowerment processes in India are moving at a staggering pace contrary to what
the popular belief is. Zero gravity believes everyone has a right to live their
life the way they want to.
I have felt that
strategizing with senior government officials in the social welfare department,
senior staff officials and members of the judiciary on the rescue and
restoration or reintegration of children from brothel prostitution is a
wonderful and learning experience. It was a kind of pitching together for the
safety and life of the girl child. A comment by a government officer is
telling: "We are interdependent.
There are a few women whom I have met and I feel they go
back into prostitution just because there is no proper guidance they get and
that is why they feel like getting back to the same place where they come from.
For some reason they still feel that, it is the only place where they can earn
a living but we teach them how to start living your own sweet life. Greeting
cards, candles watching cartoons filled with humor and joy makes them open up a
lot and think positively so that they know where they are good at and how can
they earn too.
Therefore, our mode of functioning is to learn from the
women in red-light areas and listen to their needs and work on them. That is
how we have moved on our path. Our philosophy behind this work has changed
along the way. Now we know that they did not have any agency or choice to be
there, and the traffickers have exploited their vulnerability and put them
there."
We go there spend time with the girls, our volunteers feel
celebrating their birthdays with these girls give them much satisfaction and
sense of comfort rather dancing in renowned restaurant. Our volunteers sit with
them explain them so many endless things, try to cheer them up rather than
consoling so that they know to smile and believe the same as we do “ what have
you done to make yourselves proud “
It is not there pain which
encourages us to teach them and show them an array of hope but their humble
simplicity which welcomes you at their temple of sacred motivation, where
dreams are envisioned, understood and realized. It is where the cocooned pupa
of hope, confidence and a love for life starts to break a shell and struggles
to grow its wings and fly. To flutter about the imaginative minds and to reach
greater heights. It is the blossoming of the most remarkable of stories.
They ask us, why should I learn? And
here, they find their answers, together. Here’s where their aspirations are
sheltered. The feeling of sisterhood, a bonding, of shared experiences makes
this a place of purpose, value and high regard.
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