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Mahila Development Centre (MDC)
http://www.mahiladevelopmentcentre.org/History
Established in 1990, Mahila Development Centre is a community-based initiative of women in prostitution in the Chatarbhuj Asthan red light area of Muzaffarpur. Some women in prostitution decided to start this organization with the aim to end their own exploitation and prevent their sisters from being exploited through sex trafficking.
Mission
To empower women of poor families and rehabilitate commercial sex workers and their children
- Contact Information:
- Rambagh Chowk
- Muzaffarpur, Bihar
- India
- Active In: India
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Policy Making, Rescue, Prosecution, Aftercare, Empowerment
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Child Labor
- Tel: +91 (0) 621 228-9428
- Email: mdc_2003@yahoo.co.in
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