What CMS is doing

INDIA
In the red light district of Pune, CMS mission partner Dr Lalita Edwards offers free medical help and counsel to commercial sex workers. She is working to provide night-creches to give their children somewhere to go when they are with clients. Dr Edwards has also set up a community centre which looks after children who have contracted HIV / AIDS.

BANGLADESH
CMS mission partner James Pender works with Juliate Malakar, the women's development officer of the Church of Bangladesh, to prevent trafficking. They raise awareness of the trade and offer women opportunities to start businesses so that they don't get desperate enough to be tempted across the border.

ACROSS SOUTH ASIA
The Church of Bangladesh also runs the Ekota Project which provides protection and opportunities to improve the standard of living for women and children in the slums of Dhaka.

In Sri Lanka the ESCAPE project is seeking to live up to its name: Eradicating Sexual Child Abuse, Prostitution and Exploitation.

The Church of North India's Delhi Brotherhood runs a night shelter for street children.

The United Mission to Nepal is running various programmes to address the root causes of poverty. There are 200,000 Nepalese girls under 16 working as prostitutes in India.

Counselling is provided for abused women in Kerala, South India by the Visranti scheme pioneered by the Syrian Orthodox Church.