Live in Love: In Action

Her name is Somaly Mam. As a child she was sold into a brothel as a sex slave in Cambodia where she was beaten, raped, and tortured. At the age of 30 she became a spokeswoman for women and children tortured in the brothels of Cambodia. Somaly has created an organization (AFESIP) with the goals to save and socially reintegrate people who are victims. Her organization accomplishes this through counseling, training, opportunities to work, and then reintegration into society. She has dedicated her life to rescuing girls and young women from sex slavery in Cambodia. She often receives death threats but this does not deter her work. Somaly says, “I just want to give them love, for real. It’s what I needed.”

(To view a video of Somaly Mam and to learn more about her work, visit cnn.com, CNN Heroes: Somaly Mam)




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