HOW YOU CAN
HELP

Protect a Child Every Month (Monthly Donation)

From $33

Protect a Child Every Month (Monthly Donation)

Protect a Brothel Child

$33

Protect a Brothel Child

Protect 4 Brothel Children

$128

Protect 4 Brothel Children

Protect 12 Brothel Children

$384

Protect 12 Brothel Children

Helps our supported centres to provide safe spaces for children away from the harmful environments of the brothels, giving them care, education and hope.

Support our Centres

$650

Helps our supported centres to provide safe spaces for children away from the harmful environments of the brothels, giving them care, education and hope.

Help provide vulnerable mothers with support such as education, housing and a path to a brighter future for themselves and their children.

Restore Dignity for Mothers

$1,000

Help provide vulnerable mothers with support such as education, housing and a path to a brighter future for themselves and their children.

Donate Any Amount

Any Other Amount - Children of Brothels

Donate Any Amount

CHILDREN OF
BROTHELS

Home, for many people, is marked by safety, warmth and a sense of belonging. For children, home should mean protection, happiness and the chance to truly enjoy their childhood. But for many children born in brothels, home is the opposite – a place of danger, stigma and despair.

Children born in these environments are considered illegitimate, outcasts, unwanted and dirty. Many are not even given formal registration with the government, leaving them without an identity. Girls face the ever-present threat of abuse and, as they grow older, the pressure of being forced into the same exploitative trade as their mothers. Boys are often seen as nuisances, vulnerable to gangs and drug dealers and many fall into substance abuse, crime and violence.

Muslim Charity is committed to breaking this cycle. In Pakistan and Bangladesh, we provide education opportunities, safe spaces and protection for children of brothels, giving them a chance to grow up in safety with their rights safeguarded. Our informal schools inside brothel communities offer education, life skills, meals and psychosocial support. But our work extends beyond the children.

Behind every child is a mother carrying unimaginable burdens. Many women were trafficked as teenagers, trapped for years in exploitation with little hope of escape. Through our programmes, we are now offering them a chance to heal, learn skills and earn livelihoods – restoring dignity to mothers so that their children can grow up with hope.

MUSLIM CHARITY
INTERVENTION

Pakistan

In Pakistan, the sex trade is illegal, yet it is estimated that over 90,000 women are engaged in the profession, with large numbers in Karachi and Lahore. Poverty, coercion and desperation push many into this life, leaving generations trapped in exploitation.

Through our partner organisation, we have established an informal school in Lahore’s brothel community. Here, children follow a foundational curriculum preparing them for public school enrolment.

The school provides not only a safe space for children, but also respite and support for their mothers – a rare environment where dignity and confidence can begin to grow again.

Children are given meals to combat neglect and hunger and mothers are welcomed into sessions where they receive psychosocial support, awareness of their rights and in some cases training opportunities to build independent lives.

Our aim is to show both children and mothers that life is brighter and bigger than the confines of the brothel.

Alhamdulillah, in the last year alone, 80 children have been enrolled in our Lahore school. Of these, 15 have successfully transitioned into mainstream schools.

We have also conducted 48 child protection awareness sessions to safeguard against exploitation and abuse.

Just £25 can help protect a child – providing access to a safe space for education, play and rest, while also extending support to their mothers to break free from cycles of despair.

Bangladesh

UNAIDS estimates there are around 140,000 sex workers in Bangladesh, across 20 brothel-villages. The largest is Daulatdia, the fourth largest brothel in the world, where over 2,000 sex workers and 800 children live. Each day, around 3,000 men pass through this sprawling slum of makeshift shelters, leaving women and children at constant risk of grooming, abuse and violence.

The situation is dire: thousands of girls under 18 are caught in prostitution, some as young as 10. In Daulatdia, the average age of new sex workers is just 14. Childhood here is stolen long before it begins.

Muslim Charity, through its partners, works to rescue children from these harmful environments and bring them into centres where they are cared for, educated and protected. They are taught their rights, given safe spaces to play and offered the hope of reintegration into society. These centres are also a crucial entry point for mothers – providing them with respite, counselling and vocational training so that they too can take steps towards freedom.

Our Restoring Dignity Project in Daulatdia focuses on safe housing, skills training, land ownership and livelihood opportunities for women, helping them escape exploitation and secure a future of independence. By working with both children and mothers, we are tackling exploitation at its roots and ensuring no family is left without hope.

Our work is urgent and vital and we will not stop until children and women everywhere are free from the chains of modern slavery.

? Make a donation today and help build lives marked not by fear and danger, but by happiness, dignity and hope.