Pakistan Urchins Swap Streets for Art

Published July 4, 2010

Pakistan urchins swap streets for art
Tanvir Ahmed was 11 years old when he ran away from home and got drawn into life as a sex worker on the streets of Karachi. Now he takes art lessons and dreams of a better future.
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Pakistan urchins swap streets for art
By Hasan Mansoor FEATURE KARACHI: Tanvir Ahmed was 11 years old when he ran away from home and got drawn into life as a sex worker on the streets of Karachi. Now he takes art lessons and dreams of a better future. “The four years I spent here were the worst. It was abuse. I never knew what would happen,” said Ahmed, sitting in an art studio tucked away in a backstreet in Pakistan’s teeming …
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