Development Programme for the Street Girls

Due to poverty, separation of parents, remarriage of parents, lack of social status or sexual abuse, many girls end up living on the streets in Dhaka. Most of the street girls in Dhaka (an estimated 120,000 girls) come from rural areas looking for a better life in the capital city. Street girls are often engaged in street based prostitution, rag picking, chocolate selling, flower selling, begging, collecting leafs, stealing vegetables or collecting left-overs from market places.
More often than not, street girls are the victims of sexual exploitation and are vulnerable to HIV and other sexual transmitted diseases and drug abuse.

SEEP provides services such as education, health care, food and life skills to street girls in Dhaka. Young sex workers get the opportunity to change their profession through skill training and are provided with shelter, counselling and health care. Young girls, not engaged in sex work yet, find a safe place in SEEP's shelter where they can start their education, sometimes for the first time in their lives.

Partners for this project

The Social and Economic Enhancement Programme (SEEP)