Prostitution of Children
Approximately two million children worldwide are forced into illegal prostitution. Roundly 400,000 underaged persons per year are abused sexually in brothels in India alone. This number is due to the increasing sex tourism and the extreme poverty driving many families to despair. In most cases, the children face their abuser in complete helplessness. They are sold like slaves, displaced, are forced to take drugs, abused, and often even killed. Many get infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Additional information
Official name:
Republic of India
Size:
3,287,000 km² (9 times the size of Germany)
Population:
Approx. 1.1 billion inhabitants
Religion:
Hinduism (ca. 80.5%), Islam (13.4%), Christianity (ca. 2.3%), Sikhism, Buddhism
Language:
Hindi, English, and 21 other recognized languages
Capital:
New Delhi (ca. 14 mio. inhabitants)
Geography:
South Asia
Climate:
Rainy season/monsoon (July-September), hot and dry season (April-June), seasons in North India change much more
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Project Rescue Foundation
Protection centre for underaged prostitutes
Fighting against child molestation and human trafficking
We support our partner organisation ‘Rescue Foundation’ that has specialized in freeing children in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai from prostitution. These young people experienced horrifying things. They were isolated from their parents and suffered unthinkable pains. Most of them are traumatised by their life in a brothel. A lot of the freed children could flee the hell of prostitution, but are completely helpless now since they cannot return to their parents. Even the life in a state-run orphanage does not provide a solution because these children need intense care, protection, and special psychological help.
The Rescue Centre in Mumbai
Heinz Reiter had the idea and initiated the building of a rescue and protection centre for underaged prostitutes where affected children can live until their physical and psychological wounds have healed. It is planned that school attendance as well as apprenticeship will be provided for the young people. This is meant to offer those children the chance to cope with their past and to find the way to a self-determined life.
This is how the Peter Ustinov Foundation helps
Our Foundation supports the building of a centre roundly 85 kilometres north of Mumbai. In addition to accommodation for the children, we will build a transition house, a house for washing, a kitchen with a recreation hall, garages, and a hospital.
The Peter Ustinov Foundation supports this and other projects contributing to the well-being of destitute children and their families. Please help us to realise our humanitarian efforts and aims, and give those children a hopeful future.
> For further information, please visit: www.nepalhilfe-aachen.de
Donation account: 901 801 301 Bank code: 250 100 30 Bank: Deutsche Postbank AG
