Producer Stories

Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Freeset: The hope of something better

Many of the 10,000 sex workers who line the streets of Sonagacchi, have had a long and traumatic journey from their family...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Stories of fair trade producers through Covid-19

'Note: Click on images to watch full video'   Gogo Olive. These amazing women in Zimbabwe create knitted 'shamwaris' - friendly African animals that...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Thailand: Job creation in the red light district

It’s hard not to grieve over the streets of Pattaya, Thailand, with the exploitation and other tragic stories usually written there....

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Hope for grassroots women: Vietnam

Huong grew up in a rural Vietnamese village where the odds were against her. Her father had died when she was...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Chocolate without slavery

It may be the last thing on our minds when taking a sweet bite of chocolate, but it's the bitter truth:...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Drop Earrings, Not Bombs

"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. We are growing." Drop Earrings, Not Bombs   The memory of bombs and...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Eden: Furnishing New Futures

Even in a city like Hong Kong, it can be easy for vulnerable women to fall into exploitative sex work. It...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Smiling Heart: Combatting Depression

"There's no health without mental health"    - World Health Organisation   Hong Kong can feel like a pressure-cooker for those at the grassroots. When rents...

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Crossroads Foundation Hong Kong

Released from the Sex Industry

It was never Maria‘s dream to become a sex worker. With a broken marriage behind her, though, and a past of...

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