![]() Meya says she ran away from her home in western Nepal’s Dang district at 12 years old, after her parents separated. Many of the girls and young women in the trade, like Meya, come from troubled backgrounds. ![]() Bijaya Dhakal, president of Jagriti Mahila Maha Sangh, a sex workers’ federation based in Kathmandu ![]() The number of sex workers will keep increasing. “It is not because I like it, but I am compelled to do this work,” Meya says. With just an eighth grade education, Meya, who lives with her daughter in a rented room, says she has few options. That’s more than she would earn as a cleaner in a house or hotel, the only other type of work she can find. She meets customers during the day, when a neighbour looks after Swastika, because she tends to the toddler at night. That’s when Meya decided to return to the industry. But he left when Swastika, his daughter, was three months old. The man was not a client of her or any other sex worker. She stopped working when, in 2013, she married a man she met at the hotel where she worked. Meya says she has been working in the town’s sex industry since she was 14 years old. INSIDE THE STORY: Surprised to find that many sex workers don’t fit the stereotype of women who are easily recognizable with bright, immodest clothing, a Global Press reporter instead finds young, sometimes fragile girls.
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