Archive for the ‘Cambodia’ Category
Originally written December 2007 Phary is a fourteen year-old girl in Cambodia. Her name means ‘beautiful flower’ and she certainly inherited her mother’s striking looks. However, her mother was sadly lost many years ago to a drug overdose. And her father was killed just last week in a street fight with a rival gang leader. [...]
A man in his sixties, accompanied by another who looked as if he could be his adult son, emerged from a narrow alley hand-in-hand with two young prostitutes in their early teens. The alley separated a seedy brothel from its next-door neighbor, a beauty salon. The beauty salon is run by a teenage girl, Mai [...]
On Friday, October 14th, President Obama announced that about 100 U.S. troops would be sent to Africa to help hunt down leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA, led by Joseph Kony, is a religious and military group operating in northern Uganda and southern Sudan since 1987. Between 1987 and 2007 the LRA led [...]
With an average yearly income of only $300, Cambodian families with multiple children are desperate for increased resources. Parents often resort to child trafficking as a way to lessen the burden and feed the rest of their children since traffickers will pay up $450 for a female under the age of 16. But World Orphans [...]
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