By Isabelle Bryan | Project leader
Thank you so much for joining Hope for Justice in this fight against human trafficking. Since August 2019, we have consistently housed an average of 20 girls every month at our Lighthouse providing restorative care to put them on the path to recovery after their trafficking ordeal.
Your support has enabled us to support victims of sex trafficking like Ma Ni*:
Growing up, Ma Ni* lived in Cambodia’s Battambang Province with an abusive father. Her family was scarcely able to afford one meal a day. They were sometimes so desperate they had to beg their neighbors to feed them.
Ma Ni wished for a better future in Thailand, and one day a customer offered her ‘a much better job’, across the border, as a house cleaner. With nowhere else to turn, she jumped at the opportunity.
But soon after her journey started, life became a living nightmare. She was sold to traffickers.
One of the men raped her many times. The next morning, she was sold on, to another man.
But Ma Ni managed to escape and found her way back to Cambodia and was brought to our Lighthouse for restoration.
Hope for Justice Director of Social Work (Cambodia), Sola Long, said: “She was so scared at first, she couldn’t even sleep. She had so many nightmares about what had happened to her. The girls blame themselves for everything that’s happened to them. But then we see them change, through our programs, therapy and treatment. Day by day, Ma Ni got better.”
Ma Ni told us: “Coming to Hope for Justice is a turning point for my life. My life is filled with hope now. I feel like I know what I want my future to look like. I would like to say ‘thank you’ for your help.”
Name and image changed to protect survivor’s identity.
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