Transgenders Don't Have to be Beggars
Asma Sayyani on 8, Aug 2012
http://blogs.thenews.com.pk/blogs/2012/08/transgenders-dont-have-to-be-beggars/Strength, determination and vision are the ingredients to make the impossible , possible. That's what Sanam Fakir, an angel for the transgenders in Sindh has proved by setting up a computer training center for them at her house. She has established this place with a sole intention to make these less fortunate, bread earners rather than beggars.
Rather than relying on any NGO to financially empower them she herself took initiative and has set up this computer-training centre on a self-help basis to provide professional training to her community. She has also appointed as the focal person for her minority group by the Sindh government and she is working without an office and salary for the post so far which adds another feather to her cap.
Usually transgenders in a society scrapes a living together through dancing, singing and begging on the mean streets of metropolitans. People tolerate them due to beliefs that they can give blessings towards a happy and successful life and equally the threat that they may curse those who treat them badly. Sadly, pushed out of homes by their families as children and find their way to the tougher parts of the city where groups of outcast transsexuals have come together to create whole new underground 'families'.
