• Each brothel is approximately 200 sq feet.
• The ground floor brothels are commonly called 'PINJARA' (cages). These are interspersed with a variety of shops like hair dressing salons; eateries; paan, cigarette and liquor shops.
• Each cubicle measures around 20 sq ft, which just about houses a bed.
• The ground floor brothels are commonly called 'PINJARA' (cages). These are interspersed with a variety of shops like hair dressing salons; eateries; paan, cigarette and liquor shops.
• Each cubicle measures around 20 sq ft, which just about houses a bed.
• Anywhere between 4 - 15 girls or women take turns with customers in such cubicles; this on a series of 5 - 6 beds, separated only by a thin plywood sheet, or sometimes just a cloth sheet.
• Children often sleep under the bed, or are left unattended while their mothers are entertaining clients.
Started in 1998, AAWC (Apne Aap Women’s Collective) is an NGO that works with one of the most underprivileged and isolated sections of Mumbai’s society - women in brothel-based prostitution and their children.
AAWC is not about changing the world; it’s about making a difference in the lives of these marginalized women and children, who are otherwise abandoned, destitute and exploited, with few resources to keep their body and soul together.
AAWC is not about changing the world; it’s about making a difference in the lives of these marginalized women and children, who are otherwise abandoned, destitute and exploited, with few resources to keep their body and soul together.
Apne Aap Women's Collective
1st lane Khetwadi,
1st Floor Municipal School,
Near Alankar Cinema,
Mumbai 400 004. India.
+ 91 22 2381 9721
+ 91 22 2381 2189
aawc98@gmail.com
1st lane Khetwadi,
1st Floor Municipal School,
Near Alankar Cinema,
Mumbai 400 004. India.
+ 91 22 2381 9721
+ 91 22 2381 2189
aawc98@gmail.com
