Some time ago I started receiving e mails about supporting women in other countries. My attitude was, well what about the women here, same with all causes for me. I also didn't have have a way to be there but after last night, my eyes were opened wide.
Sex Trafficking a three year-old? I listened to Public television and did change it as it first started with grow women in another country who were prostitutes, but I kept coming back to it because suddenly in one of my clicks a child was visible. This was in Cambodia, and then Viet Nam. It was about a girl named NIH, pronounced (knee) who was one of many in these horrible life situations. Situations is an easy work compared to what it is. She hadn't yet become a sex slave although it wasn't known if her father molested here every night as it appeared. She is afraid to talk.
Those stories hit hard, and one was a three year old, sold by her mother, raped and sold again until a women's group in Viet Nam took her in somehow. Three years old !!! What kind of monsters are these men who use babies, and women who sell their own children?
It is known widely as sex trafficking. NIH sold lottery tickets for four American dollars a day to give to her father and if he felt giving he might give her fifty cents. Her day, her whole day was spent selling tickets and in school. Now that was and would be her ticket away from her father and brother who all slept in the same bed.
Years ago in Cambodia, one young lady was educated by another lady and the second lady started a shelter of sorts for female children and then a school. This is the ripple effect of educating a girl. They are saving lives. They are educating one another about HIV and AIDS. One little girls mother and sister died of AIDS. The sister was only fourteen. She was sold into sex slavery.
My eyes were opened.
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