Born into brothels

Throughout the week and last week we watched a documentary titled, "Born into Brothels". The documentary explores one of the brothels in India, but more specially the kids living in that brothel. A photographer comes to the brothels originally to learn more about the women, but as she gets there she becomes much more interested in the children living there. She quickly learns about the children and their lives. The children are faced with such difficult struggles and are given no opportunities to succeed. she sees the perfect chance to help the children through photography. She uses photography as an escape for the children, an escape from the brothel and photography allows them to do something productive with their time .Many of them quickly find themselves enjoying taking pictures and many of them actually have talent in this field. As the days go on they become more interested in photography and they go around their city taking pictures and many of them take quality pictures. She then attempts to help the kids further their education because they are not going to school, and it is clear that these kids have the capabilities to achieve greater things in the world. Through hard work she is successful and gets the kids in school where many of them continued their education.
I think this documentary was a great example of the many things we can do to help others in situations much worse than us.With the power of photography and encouragement these unfortunate kids that the world had given up on, were given the opportunity of a life time to go to school and be able to escape the horrors of the brothel. This documentary made me truly realize the power we have to help others. I believe its extremely important to help other given the chance. What may seem hopeless, like the future of these children, can easily be changed with a little bit of effort. I am truly happy for all these kids that were able to overcome these horrible conditions they were put in. It takes a lot of courage and responsibility to make such a crucial decision that could change their futures at such a young age, but the kids were spot on when they chose to pursue their education and make something out of their lives. We can all learn from these kids, we know to appreciate what we have because many kids are in much worse situations. We also learn that if we all help one another the world can truly changed and the future of many can be saved as well.