Our ministry has three separate resource centers:
1—A Vocational Center for women.
2—A Girls Home for young girls and teenagers.
3— An Evening Care Center for children in the red-light district.
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Today we visited the Girls Home for the first time. Coming from one of Kolkata’s red-light districts, all of the girls at the home are children of prostituted women. Mothers (or caretakers) gave our ministry permission to care for these vulnerable girls because of relationships built. The girls live at the home and visit their families during holidays.
As I mentioned in a previous post, Indians often use familial language when referring to friends AND acquaintances. Before entering the home, we tucked away our shoes and heard smiling faces say, “Auntie, Auntie," and became family before we even crossed the threshold.
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