"A cage is the most emotive symbol of the sex trade.
Walk through Kamathipura and you see faces staring at you from barred windows. Many are childrens' faces, daubed with paint like ludicrous clowns, but there is no merriment in their eyes, only horror and a crushing resignation.
Look beyond the faces and you see their prison cells: narrow spaces divided from similar spaces by flimsy walls or curtains; the only articles of furniture are the squalid beds.
Body and bed constitute oe commodity in this slave market.
Incongruously, teddy bears and dolls stare up at you from greasy, sweat stained pillows like memories of innocence.
Childhood has been snatched from these girls. Their faces are young by their eyes are dead. They are the innocent punished for the crimes of the guilty: girls abducted from chiuldhood to serve as sex slaves in the Kamathipura hell.
Through the barred window, you are looking at one of the most atrocious crimes of the century. Don't look away.
Indifference is not an option.
The girl with the painted face could be your doughter. She is related to youby a common humanity.
Your outrage and action could change her life.
You have the power to open her cage.
stop sex slavery
Walk through Kamathipura and you see faces staring at you from barred windows. Many are childrens' faces, daubed with paint like ludicrous clowns, but there is no merriment in their eyes, only horror and a crushing resignation.
Look beyond the faces and you see their prison cells: narrow spaces divided from similar spaces by flimsy walls or curtains; the only articles of furniture are the squalid beds.
Body and bed constitute oe commodity in this slave market.
Incongruously, teddy bears and dolls stare up at you from greasy, sweat stained pillows like memories of innocence.
Childhood has been snatched from these girls. Their faces are young by their eyes are dead. They are the innocent punished for the crimes of the guilty: girls abducted from chiuldhood to serve as sex slaves in the Kamathipura hell.
Through the barred window, you are looking at one of the most atrocious crimes of the century. Don't look away.
Indifference is not an option.
The girl with the painted face could be your doughter. She is related to youby a common humanity.
Your outrage and action could change her life.
You have the power to open her cage.
stop sex slavery
Scrawl this like graffiti on every cage in Kamathipura. Spray it on the face of the nation."
Sarah this is lovely writing and so sad. I miss you very much and hope that your travels give you strength and wisdom and that you can be brave through it all. love you!
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