Dreams Beyond The Darkness (Tales of Young Dreamers from Prerana’s Night Care Centers)

No one imagines a child growing up in a red-light area. But they do — born into brothels, hidden under beds while the night’s business happens nearby. In 1986, Prerana opened Asia’s first Night Care Center in Kamathipura: one room, one radical idea — that these children deserved a safe place to sleep, and a shot at something else. Dreams Beyond The Darkness follows five of them: a future social worker, an artist, a boy chasing a civil service badge, a girl determined to protect the streets she grew up on, and a young entrepreneur. Their names are changed. Their stories aren’t. Read here