Red Light District, Mumbai, India  
Jubilee girls on their way to school. The girls have been rescued from Bombays red light light district and now live in Jubilee's homes.
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A disturbing sight of a baby in a brothel.
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Vidya, on the balcony overlooking the street where her mother and her friends sell their bodies for sex.


All she can see when she looks out are more brothels. This is her view of the world. This is her destiny, unless she gets rescued.
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A local man inspects the goods of two teenage
prostitutes in the market place of Bombay’s red light district.
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Girls at one of residential homes outside Mumbai
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Glory was 9 months old when she was rescued. Her father wanted to sell her to a brothel owner for £150. We convinced him there was another way. he let us take her into our care.
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Glory (right) has been growing up in our care. She soon became best friends with Kavita. They are inseperable.
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‘Are you taking pictures to send back to my village? This mothers shame was summed up in this one sentence. Most women are forced into prostitution by poverty, some are kidnapped and cheated. Many are trafficked from over the boarder in Nepal. Once a prostitute, your future lies only in this midnight world.


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A daughter of a prostitute, saying her night prayers at the Jubilee shelter which is located in the centre of the red light district.
The shelter is a place of safety for her, while a few streets away her mother works servicing upto 15 men a night.

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Reshma: aged 6, sits on her bed which her mother will
use to service about 15 clients a night. Her home, a bed behind a curtain. A brothel normally houses between 8 to 10 women and their children. Reshma doesn’t attend school but spends her time running errands for clients that visit the brothel. Sometimes, she just roams the streets, playing in the red light neighbourhood.

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School Children
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A vulnerable child asleep on the floor in a brothel. Children often sleep under their mothers beds while they are working.
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Prostitutes standing outside brothels, on the streets of the red light district.

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Two beautiful girls at school.
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Unheard voice
Vidya, aged 5 years, in the corridors of a brothel. A child trapped in an adult world of sexual slavery by circumstances of birth.

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