More than 2.3 million girls and women in India are believed to be working in the sex industry against their will. Trapped in a life of severe physical and psychological pain, many women die young - broken and without hope.

Many women working the trade also become mothers, and today there are at least five million children of sex workers in India. Children in red-light areas are vulnerable to abuse, trauma and second-generation prostitution. During the day, children are often left alone while their mothers are sleeping. At night, some are drugged and put under the bed while their mothers work the trade. Languishing in lives filled with hunger, neglect, illiteracy and hopelessness, these children long for the day when their childhood will finally be theirs.

With the help of our partners at Sahaara Charitable Society, we are rescuing children like Muskan (above right) from the horrors of the red-light districts and relocating them to loving safe homes, well outside the red-light districts.