Abdul Salam

Mr Jones appeal for children who live in brothels and street children

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Mr Jones appeal for children who live in brothels and street children, 16 October 2017
Children who are born in brothels face the immediate danger of sexual abuse, grooming and violence. We will rescue these children to a home where there is love, compassion and protection.

Story

There are an estimated 20,000 children who live in brothels in Bangladesh and countless thousands around the world.

Born into an environment where they are groomed at a very early age and engulfed into a world of sexual abuse, torture, and violence. They are marginalized from the community and find it difficult to enroll into mainstream schools and society in general due to the stigma of been child of a sex worker.

Children as young as 5-6 help their mothers by cleaning the rooms after a client visit. They handle dirty used paraphilia as well as being exposed to drugs like Yabba.

Young girls are groomed and are forced into prostitution from a very young age where they are abused and sold for a few pounds to countless men. The evil desire of sexually abusing virgin young girls commands a high price and due to poverty, violence and lack of opportunity sex workers see no option but to force their own children into prostitution and sell them to the highest bidder.

Boys are also sexually abused until they can ‘fight back’ but by that time they have immersed themselves into the brothel life and become pimps themselves or involved in criminality.

Some of these children are lured from the villages from their parents with a hope of working as a domestic maid. Others are knowingly sold to pay for family debts. Those that are running away from abuse and end up on the streets are eventually trafficked into sexual exploitation and end up in the brothels.

Children develop severe mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and often self-harm. Children lack confidence and are either suspicious or petrified of any male interaction.

Mothers sometimes spend the lion share of their earnings to keep their children in hostels away from the brothels. But even that is not safe with several cases of local gangster’s gang raping of young unattended children.

We have been working with vulnerable children in Bangladesh for a number of years and have successfully rescued over 1,000 children from evils of the street. We have rescued children who have been in bonded sexual slavery and reunited lost children with their families. Now with your help, we have now embarked on this new journey to save children from the brothels.

The Project

Our team is on the ground now and working with sex workers to rescue as many children from the brothels as possible.

We have a safe home where they will be protected from the dangers of brothel life. They will be given nutritious food, clothing, and education to enable them to achieve their dreams and full potential the same as we would ant for our children. We also have setup professional psychological support where children will be treated according to their needs.

We believe that the mothers should still have a relationship with their children and have therefore arranged visits twice a month as well as any arranged visits they may wish to make. It’s important that we maintain the bond of a mother and her child and not add to the trauma suffered by their children.

The charity will take legal guardianship of all the children rescued so they are never taken back to that dark world as well as take the possibility of their mothers making decisions that would bring them into harm’s way.

With your help, we want to raise the voices of all the children who are silently suffering sexual, mental and physical abuse in Bangladesh and around the world. Together we have the ability to change their lives for the better and give them the opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

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Children who are born in brothels face the immediate danger of sexual abuse, grooming and violence. We will rescue these children to a home where there is love, compassion and protection.

About the charity

Muslim Charity

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Muslim Charity is a leading international relief and development NGO that aims to alleviate the suffering of the world's poorest people. As well as responding to disasters and emergencies, it successfully carries out short and long-term development projects - regardless of race, religion or gender.

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