Post a Comment. She was promised a job, but ended up as a sex worker, soliciting customers on the streets to fend herself in the island nation. However, she could barely do this for two months, when Singapore police caught Kalaivani and deported her to Chennai. In a frank conversation, Kalaivani, narrates her true story.
I am from Sivgangai district of Tamil Nadu, and came to Madras to live with my husband, after getting married at the age of He worked in the cine field and life ran smooth for some years. We had two children, a son and a daughter.
Then calamity stuck on our family, my husband passed away, leaving behind huge debts and two young children to be raised up. The responsibilities fell on me, but being a traditional village woman, I did not know what to do. Having no other go, I exactly did what I was told, just to realize that there was no job for me in Singapore. Those who had brought me there forced me to become commercial sex worker. I was lucky to be deported to Chennai but my woes did not end here as well. Even tough, I was able to clear the debts by , but I continued the profession for the sake of my children.
Her son now an engineer and recently got married and her daughter is finishing her graduation in computer science, Kalivani has left the profession for good.
IFPEC has members and works for the rights of the sex workers, like, police harassment, old age pension, ration cards, life insurance, old age shelter etc. Her account is of a girl, whose love failure forced her to choose the fallen path and there was no coming back from there. Baby was 17, doing her 10th standard in Hyderabad.
