Priti Patkar helps the children of Mumbai's sex workers - CSMonitor.com

Priti Patkar helps the children of Mumbai's sex workers - CSMonitor.com: "“I was shocked to learn that children were often drugged and put under the cots as their mothers solicited customers,” she recalls. “Who would ever have thought that these young children often [served] as masseurs for their mother’s customers and ran errands for them?”"



"“It was certainly not the wish of [their] mothers,” she explains. “The moment we met them, they told us that they were longing to send their children to the local school.... Since they couldn’t look after their children in the night, they [would be] happy to drop them at a shelter home.”



And so Patkar decided to create one."