{"id":1346,"date":"2016-04-27T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:44:29","slug":"capturing-the-journey-of-sex-workers-children-becoming-football-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Capturing The Journey Of Sex Worker\u2019s Children Becoming Football Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Balarka<\/a>
Balarka Brahma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While researching the football scene in Kolkata, photographer\u00a0Balarka Brahma<\/a>\u00a0came across a residential home set up by\u00a0Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee\u00a0<\/a>(DMSC) for children of sex workers from various brothels at Baruipur, a small town near Kolkata. Slowly gathering information and details from its location to the mode of functioning, Brahma finally got a chance to meet Mr. Smarajit Jana, the head of the\u00a0academy<\/a>, and embarked on a\u00a0visual documentation<\/a>\u00a0of the children\u2019s lives at the residential home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Balarka<\/a>
Balarka Brahma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A unique cooperative of close to 65,000 sex workers\u2013male, female and transgender\u2013DMSC was established in 1992 in Sonagachi, the region\u2019s largest red-light district. Rallying for the rights of brothel workers, the team felt the need to do more for their children who often get trapped in the trade of their mothers, or when they are denied education they\u2019re driven into the nefarious trade of sex work and drugs. DMSC\u2019s innovative approach to providing new opportunities to these children involve separating them from their mothers, a necessary evil for many, and providing them with a safe home, schooling and an in into mainstream society through football. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Balarka<\/a>
Balarka Brahma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSports have helped in great extent to integrate them in societies. As everyone knows that Bengal is the land of football; it was the obvious choice to them to select football for this purpose,\u201d Brahma told us. \u201cRunning a home only for residential and educational purposes do not help much in long run, and they realized it. At least they needed something which can attract and motivate the kids to stay away from their mothers. The football team is a mixture of both kids from the brothel areas and beyond.\u201d (Words: Sara Hussain)<\/span><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0the whole article and see more pictures on Homegrown:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/homegrown.co.in\/capturing-the-journey-of-sex-workers-children-becoming-football-champions-in-photos\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Balarka<\/strong><\/a> is an independent documentary photographer from India. He mainly works with NGOs for their works in various sectors like education, health and mental care along with his personal projects. His works have been published in different magazines like Galli, Better Photography, Invisible Photographer Asia, Private and many more. (source: lensculture)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.balarkabrahma.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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While researching the football scene in Kolkata, photographer\u00a0Balarka Brahma\u00a0came across a residential home set up by\u00a0Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee\u00a0(DMSC) for children of sex workers from various brothels at Baruipur, a small town near Kolkata. Slowly gathering information and details from its location to the mode of functioning, Brahma finally got a chance to meet Mr. … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}