Transgender persons given opportunities of better lives in Lahore
Among several issues that the community has to live with is ill-treatment by police
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Transgender persons seem to have find their feet in socially challenged lives that they have to lead as some of them have opted for a respected profession with help of an NGO, Dunya News reported Wednesday.
Some members of the ridiculed community vowed to not let the society make a mockery of them anymore. The persons who used to earn their livelihood by amusing locals in the streets sew clothes now.
A non-government organization (NGO), Akhuwat took initiative in the matter and provided the required equipment.
NGO’s administration has vowed to streamline the neglected community in social flow.
Earlier in bid to uplift the community, National College of Arts (NCA) Rawalpindi campus had hired some persons for cafeteria work among other jobs.
The community has demonstrated on the Mall several times in Lahore outside the Punjab Assembly. The last of the demonstrations came in 2015 when Neeli, Sheeba, Rani, Reema and Saima blocked the traffic among other persons by staging a sit-in protest outside the assembly.
They chanted slogans and demanded basic rights with several lying on the road while other riding motorbikes.
Among several issues that the community has to live with is ill-treatment by police.
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