For 16 years a fair-trade business called Freeset has been offering alternative employment to the women, making jute bags and t-shirts. Pip Rea works with the Freeset project Tamar, which has a drop-in community centre offering the women help with healthcare, literacy and job training. Rea says women most commonly enter the sex industry after being misled by offers of other work, such as cleaning or being a maid, or by coercion.
He befriends her, forms a relationship, they have a village marriage ceremony. He takes her away to his family and ends up selling her. Once she came across a grandmother bringing her 17 year old grand-daughter to enter the sex trade. This is not about making money. Freeset focuses more on building relationships with women who are already established in the trade - and their madams, says Rea.
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