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Restaurant for HIV+ People and Fight Social Stigma Run by Sex Workers

by Rajshri on December 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM AIDS/HIV News

A restaurant that serves traditional south Indian food to guests is being run by sex workers and transgenders in Mysore city of Karnataka. This is a way of raising funds for HIV positive people and fighting social stigma.

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Ashodaya, a small restaurant, opened in Mysore, is an enterprise run by 12 male and female sex workers and transgenders.

The restaurant named "Ashodaya Hotel" was opened with the aim of reducing discrimination and the social stigma attached to people from the sex-worker community.

"Initially public used to avoid us. They called us prostitutes. But this hotel belongs to our organisation. People gradually started coming to our hotel and sat and ate together. They shared our problems. In this way we are reducing the stigma on us and discrimination in our society," said Prathima, a sex worker working at the Ashodaya Hotel.

Ashodaya, as the name indicates, is a "Dawn of Hope" in the lives of several sex workers in the Mysore and Mandya districts.

Opened as part of the World Bank's entrepreneurial initiatives, the hotel is named after Ashodaya Samiti, an organisation of male, female and transgender workers in the city. It was opened on the occasion of World AIDS day.

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