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India is home to over , sex workers , with rampant sex trafficking of minors. The laws that aim to prevent trafficking and sex work do little to protect sex workers and have severe repercussions on their children. Without the life skills and education, boys tend to get into drugs and petty crime, and girls often join the sex-trade to earn a living. It is in this context that Ashoka Fellow Paramita Banerjee started working with sex workers and their families in the s. In the forty years since, DIKSHA has gone on to build a national model for breaking the cycle of intergenerational sex trade, with youth at the helm. Paramita Banerjee: I was raised in a family of academics who were urban, upper-middle-class and were privileged to receive higher education.

Dressed in crisp white saris, year-old Seema and year-old Rumi giggle together outside the adolescent girls' club in their tea plantation village in Dibrugarh, north-east India. For the friends, the blue-painted clubhouse is more than just somewhere to socialise — it's where they are forging bonds that are transforming their futures. After learning that Seema's family were planning an early marriage for her, Rumi and other club members began a concerted campaign of visits to her parents and grandmother. The teenagers' well-informed arguments convinced the family to let Seema complete her education and wait till she was emotionally and physically ready to become a wife and mother. We'll not get to go to school. Marriage under 16 is illegal in India, but a national survey last year showed almost half of girls were younger when married.

We found a story of diminishing constraints, but not enough freedom. Suneeta Devi had dropped out of her school, and joined an industrial training institute ITI near her home to learn sewing. The classes lasted for three hours.

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