Born Into Brothels

Born Into Brothels

I watched this movie last night and was completely blown away, inspired to do more, be more, to make a bigger difference. The Academy Award winning documentary from last year follows a group of children, the children of sex workers, growing in one of Calcutta's notorious red-light district and given the opportunity to study photography. They get this chance from a Western woman who originally wanted to just take picture of the everyday lives in the neighborhood, but by living there became sucked into the children's curiosity. But the movie stays focused on the children and their efforts to try to build a future for themselves outside of the cycles of poverty, violence and drug addiction. It's heartbreaking and just a small snapshot of the plight of so many children in the world, smart and hopeful, but trapped in their circumstances. But even as some of the children become sucked back into the neighborhood, a few are able to affect real change in their lives and that left me hopeful and inspired to something more in my own community. It's a powerful movie that can do something like that.

The kids photos can be purchased at http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/