“Otherwise, they would join their mothers in prostitution.” “The school keeps them safe and away from the home-based brothels that they were growing up in,” said Ruchira Gupta, Apne Aap's founder.
Founded by the nonprofit organization Apne Aap, its supporters and the Bihar state government, the school aims to break the bonds of caste and inequality. Their school, not far from the border with Nepal in the Indian state of Bihar, is part of a national program of girls’ boarding schools called Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, intended specifically for minority groups. They are members of a marginalized caste known as the Nat community, which is trapped in a system of hereditary prostitution. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times) Twelve-year-old Aarti Kumari combs her hair at the Kasturba Gandhi Girls School.Īt this school, many of the children playing games, doing homework, helping with dinner and making crafts are the daughters of prostitutes.
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