Stories of change
Stories of change
60 Story items
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19 August 2019
I feel empowered to speak up and own my work
It all started with smoking cigarettes. I smoked with these people from another ...
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19 August 2019
My income supports nine people
I grew up in this same family house that we still live in today. Our parents pas...
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19 August 2019
Some of the men in my neighbourhood are jealous because I own my house
My parents started fighting when he met another woman. I was about 13 years old....
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19 August 2019
Sex work is my career. I chose my job
I was born and grew up in Gugulethu. My mother raised me and my brother. My fath...
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19 August 2019
Sex work gave me the freedom to do what I wanted to do
I grew up very close to my family. I live in a cottage on the family property no...
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19 August 2019
I feel strong now
There wasn’t enough money to live at home so I grew up in a shelter in Khayeli...
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19 August 2019
Our health is the most important thing
I was working as a maid and providing for three children and my mother. The mone...
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19 August 2019
I feel empowered. I choose when, where, how and with who
My birth name is Bradley but I found out about myself at a young age. I had a hi...
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19 August 2019
I cherish the freedom I get in sex work
When I was 15, I was living with my stepmother and father in Bulawayo. I made fr...
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31 July 2019
Trainers Lab brings the world within my reach
Trainers Lab, recently developed by a consortium of organisations working to adv...
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08 July 2019
Meet PITCH Country Focal Point Anthony Nkwocha from Nigeria
First published in October 2018
Each month we ask one of the PITCH country f...
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08 July 2019
Meet PITCH Country Focal Point Baby Rivona from Indonesia
First published in November 2018
Each month we ask one of the PITCH coun...
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27 June 2019
PITCH positively changes people's lives in Ukraine
In our series on PITCH Country Focal Points, Anton Basenko from Ukraine shares w...
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30 May 2019
The public in Myanmar has a better understanding of the struggles of key populations
In our series on PITCH Country Focal Points, Yan Win Soe from Myanmar shares wha...