India centre to get transgender school dropouts ready for jobs

By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A centre for transgender school dropouts is set to open this week in India to help address the challenge of a lack of formal education that forces them into low-paid jobs. The Sahaj Alternate Learning Centre in the southern state of Kerala will initially house 10 transgender students taught by volunteer teachers and social workers. "This is a centre for those transgender students who had to drop out of school because they were abused or because they were kicked out by their families or school authorities," said activist Vijayraja Mallika, a founder of the centre.

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