INDIA
Cultural Slavery in the Banchara Community
THE ISSUE
In communities throughout India, sex slavery is synonymous with tradition. For over 500 years, beginning at the age of 12, life for young girls from the low-caste Banchara tribe has been deliberately structured to bear the weight of the family’s financial burden. Since the Banchara caste position severely limits economic opportunities, customs like Nari Mata, joining their mothers in a life of cultural slavery and prostitution, becomes their only method of survival.
GET INVOLVED
Through child sponsorship, many young girls have been given a safe place to live, an education, and another choice for their future other than entering the sex trade.
The longer these children stay in the classroom, the more likely they are to see they have options . . . choices . . . a destiny that is not determined by birth or social standing.
Begin your sponsorship journey today for $35 a month, and provide these young girls from the Banchara tribe with hope for the future.