DHAKA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Bangladeshi sex workers held a protest rally in Dhaka on Thursday after officials sought to evict them from a 111-year-old brothel complex. "Don‘t evict us. Let us earn our living as usual. Otherwise you will force us to scatter around the cities and make a bigger social issue for you," said one girl from Tanbazar, one of the country‘s biggest red light areas. Several women‘s rights groups supported the protest, urging the government to set no harsh conditions on the sex workers before preparing an acceptable plan to secure their future. Officials said the government already had a plan to rehabilitate the women from the brothel in the town of Narayanganj, 20 km from Dhaka. But the prostitutes, who are estimated to number up to 3,500, said they doubted the plan would succeed. They called for measures to help educate their children instead. Thirty-year-old Sathi said: "Arrange education for our children so they would not be forced into the sex trade and be able to live a decent life. We are already spoiled and trying to cure us will be a waste of time." The eviction move was prompted by social and religious groups in Narayanganj who say the brothel, set up in 1888, was the focus of illegal activities in the area. A delegation of sex workers went to the office of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday and handed over a memorandum urging the immediate resolution of their problems.