Sold by Mum
Sold by Mum
Goalando is one of the largest red-light areas in Bangladesh. Half of the 3,000 women there are children or very young people. Lipi had to help her mother pay off her gambling debts; she became a prostitute. She shows us her home and her surroundings, her friends and family.
Farida lives in a shelthered home for children. All children at the home have been rescued from prisons and brothels. Farida lives there because she was sold as a child bride, abused and raped. We meet both girls at a stage when their situations have changed radically.