This is My Story
You know that approximately 200 girls and women are forced into prostitution each day, you know that the average age that a young girl is forced into prostitution is eleven, you know that approximately seventy percent of the young women forced into prostitution develop HIV aids but what does this knowledge really mean to you?
Knowing the statistics and facts is important. Statistics are powerful for creating positive change. We encourage you to do the research and come to grips with the magnitude of the presence that Human Trafficking has in the world. It is our hope, however, that this section will encourage you to stop swimming in a sea of faceless facts and statistics, realize that each statistic has a face and a story, and step up to the plate in a tangible, realistic way.
We hope to accomplish this transformation from mere stats to real life through true stories of women who were once held captive in a place of hopelessness but have found hope and purpose once again.
Please take a few minutes to read the remarkable stories of some of the women of Rahab’s Rope in India. As the stats turn into real people, we hope you will be propelled to join us in the fight to restore lives - one young girl or woman at a time.
Profiles
* Names have been changed to protect the women.
**CSW - Commercial Sex Worker
December 13, 2011
Susan is 17 years old and came to us in December 2009 - in labor! She had a beautiful baby girl...
Susan had been working in a farmer's field as a child laborer with her family. One day, some of the men in charge told Susan's aunt to stay late the next day with Susan in exchange for a large sum of money. The next day the men paid Susan's aunt and got her drunk to the point at which she passed out. The men then forcibly took Susan (age 16), tied her up and repeatedly raped her so many times that she lost count of how many men and how many times. They left her lying bound and naked. We cannot begin to imagine the pain and horror she must have felt as she lay there wondering if they would be back for more or if they left her there to die.
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December 13, 2011
Can you imagine a 21 year old girl walking in your door; she cannot hear or speak - only utter sounds. She has deep dark sad eyes filled with pain. She never smiles and she withdraws from a gentle touch because she has never known one. You take her to the doctor and discover she has one-hundred percent permanent hearing loss in one ear and, with a hearing aid, can receive forty percent hearing in the other ear. Then the doctor says, “But this is not her main concern... Anna's sinus cavities are completely destroyed."
Anna had such a a severe and long-lasting sinus infection that we were told it would take several surgeries to correct the problem. The doctor said if we had not brought her in when we did Anna would have literally died within the year.
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