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My friend Nhu is a normal 20-year old girl: she studies hard, blasts Beyonce from her iPhone, and knows the best place for a cheap pedicure. It's hard to believe that when Nhu was 12 years old, her family sold her to an Australian sex tourist for $300. Nhu was locked in a hotel room with her rapist for three days, and her grandmother used the proceeds to buy food for the family.
Sadly, Nhu's rape and exploitation are "normal" for an estimated 3 million women worldwide, in countries like Cambodia, Thailand, India, and even the U.S. The good news is that Nhu's story doesn't end like so many others--with her permanently enslaved and beaten into submission at a brothel. Instead, Nhu is now the spokeswoman for an organization that prevents young girls from being sold into the sex trade. By providing girls from poor villages an education and a safe community to thrive in, Remember Nhu hopes to protect girls like Nim and Pat (pictured above) from the horrors that Nhu experienced.
Regardless of where (s)he born, We needs to protect that value. Sorry to heard that they regard as 'Normal'.
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The title of here is REALLY fantastic. It strucks a chord of me. Actually If I entitle my blog's name I will choice
"have mouth, will travel."
I prefer speaking rather than write.
Anyway thanks for give me a moment to think about Human Bondage. ;)
Dexter! Your insights as usual are spot on. Please DO start a blog called "have mouth, will travel"...although I guess writing about it would negate the point!
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