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“A chance trip down the lanes of Kalighat changed my life”
Most people see deprivation only with their eyes, but Urmi Basu, 52, is one of those rare ones who see it with their heart.
Walking down the street of so-called shame and prejudice in south Kolkata, what she saw in the dark lanes of Kalighat gave birth to New Light, a registered public charitable trust that provides the children of sex workers safety, shelter and schooling.
Urmi Basu's New Light is working with children of sex workers, taking care of their education and helping them find jobs |
For the last fifteen years, Urmi Basu and her team have been working relentlessly in the red-light district of Kolkata in a mission to educate and provide better lives to the ignored, neglected and often humiliated children of sex workers.
In her work she combines her enduring concern for gender equality and the desire to help make things right for abused women, girl children and young people