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I knew that those sex workers I had met in the morning
我知道 白天我碰到的那些性工作者
could be the woman that I carried upstairs later that evening,
以后很有可能就會變成那天晚上我扶上樓的那位女性
unless we found a way to defy the stigma that hung over their lives.
除非我們能夠找到辦法 為她們洗脫身上無法擺脫的污名
Over the past ten years, our Foundation has helped sex workers build support groups
過去十年來 我們基金會幫助性工作者建立起很多支持小組
so they could empower one another to speak up
讓她們有能力相互鼓勵 發出聲音
and demand safe sex and that their clients use condoms.
要求安全的性交易 要求客人使用安全套
Their brave efforts have helped to keep HIV prevalence low among sex workers
她們的努力讓性工作者的艾滋病發病率保持較低水平
and a lot of studies show
很多研究顯示
that's the big reason why the AIDS epidemic has not exploded in India.
這也正是艾滋病沒有在印度大范圍暴發的重要原因
When these sex workers gather together to help stop AIDS transmission,
性工作者們聚在一起幫助阻止艾滋病傳播的同時
something unexpected and wonderful happened.
又發生了一件令人意想不到的奇妙事情
The community they formed became a platform for everything.
她們組成的群體為自身權益的伸張筑起了平臺
Police and others who raped and robbed them
強奸 搶劫她們的警察和其他人
couldn't get away with it anymore.
不能再逍遙法外
The women set up systems to encourage savings for one another
這些女性組織起了一個鼓勵大家存錢的體系
and with those savings, they were able to leave sex work.
通過這些存款 不少人得以脫離性工作
This was all done by people that society considered the lowest of the low.
這些都是被社會認為最下等的人們所做到的
