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I donated some money to an organization called Saheli. I worked there for a few weeks last year, definetly an interesting experience. It is located in Poona, India. The women at this organization work for the empowerment of local sexworkers, almost only women. Who they are and what they are doing:
"Saheli HIV/AIDS Karyakarta Sangh is the only sex workers collective in Pune. The collective was established in 1998, with the voluntary efforts of women in the red light area of Pune City. The aim was to bring women in sex work together and to solve their problems by taking initiatives to achieve their rights as human beings. Saheli Sangh is a membership organisation. There are 500 members who are women in sex work. The organisation has a democratic election process for governing the collective."
Prime tasks are HIV-prevention programs for local sexworkers, taking them to doctors, helping them with bureaucracy, providing healthy food and taking care of their children. It is very basic work, and it does not need very much to make the lives of these women more comfortable. The biggest problems usually is that these women are very afraid of outsiders, even if they want to help them.
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