The empowerment of the girl changed her head

Today, many families in India celebrate the child’s birth. Yet a girl sometimes isn’t accepted or at most tolerated. Unfortunately, India has the questionable reputation of one of the largest number of female foeticide cases worldwide. In certain parts of the world girls and women also face social challenges, such as child marriage, females, forced births, and even rape, which are a distant possibility of girls being empowered.
Girls are brought up with better methods in this village in Tonk district of Rajasthan and handled well. They wear lovely clothes and are respected as breadwinners for their households. Yet the fact is dreadful.

These girls are born with a conventional destiny – to become commercial sex slaves. When they reach puberty’s age, their brothers, fathers, and uncles will become criminals in the major cities and take them away to the brothels. Or to waste days on roads in front of temporary rooms for consumers. Families live off their daughters’ incomes in the Nat culture.
Many of these tribal groups are scattered through 15 States in India, which have an old tradition of inter-generational trafficking and a girl’s empowerment.

To a grim tomorrow

Such activities remain alive in a toxic loop of poverty and patriarchy. And if young girls try to fight, they are expected to continue their family’s legacy of survival – and the majority embrace this destiny. The oldest girl bears the load in some cultures.
She also lives in the home of her family and is given a place whenever customers order. It’s just a way of life, there is no guilt. Her friends in the red-light areas of large towns and ‘safe’ in a warped sort of female empowerment felt superior to her family home.

The Covid-19 pandemic threw a dark shadow in the village of the Tonk district. In the Mumbai and Delhi brothels, where their young girls usually end up, the business wasn’t as normal. Family wealth has dried up, thus. Any parents who were employed as regular workers have lost their jobs. Girls are also now vulnerable to danger in their villages.