About 200 women living and working on the island Bani Shanta in one of the 14 official brothels in Bangladesh, a Muslim country where prostitution is considered legal. The global warming threaten the life of the women and their children. The river bed of the Pashur has changed and decreased the size of the seaport Mongla which is near by the island. Less national and international vessels in the port means less customers for the prostitutes. Further the more and more heavily submergence in the monsoon season threatened the life of the inhabitants of the island. Shunned by the society and without any financial help, the prostitutes are living in an extreme poverty. NGO`s have just started a program to offer them alternative works to save the prostitutes from misery.
© / Young prostitute is waiting for clients.
© / Two Prostitutes are fighting for a client.
© / A prostitute with a client at the bank of the river Pashur.
© / Young prostitute is waiting for clients at the bank of the island.
© / A prostitute with a client at the bank of the river Pashur.
© / A prostitute with a client at the bank of the river Pashur.
© / Barracks close at the bank of the river Pashur. Woman clean her dishes.
© / Monsun; the rising water line threatened the poor barracks.
© / Elderly woman at the bank of the river Pashur
© / A woman with her child is making ropes.
© / Young prostitute with a client at the bank of the river Pashur.
© / Daily life in the brothel.
© / The village on Bani Shanta.
© / Monsun; the rising water line threatened the poor barracks.
© / Monsun, the rising water line threatened the poor barracks.
© / Monsun; rising water line, damages at the bank of the island.
© / Smoking young prostitute in the brothel.
© / Brothel. Prostitute, make-up.
© / Young prostitute with her baby.
© / Daily life on Bani Shanta.
© / Crying woman.
© / Young prostitute is waiting for clients.
© / Monsun, Damages.
© / A prostitute is speaking with a client.
© / View to the poor barracks of Bani Shanta.