Meeting with author Somaly Mam

Margie, Somaly, and Marlene
 

   Marlene Versteeg and Margie Miller met  with the author of one of the books we use in our book  discussion group early this year. Somaly Mam has not only survived years as a child and teenager in the forced sex trade/brothels of Cambodia, but has, through the help of her two foundations, now been a part in the rescue of more than 7000 young women from such horrors and enslavement in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Her work provides them with safety, shelter, education, and training for jobs. Her book is well worth reading, though quite explicit and rough, as you can imagine.

  It's title is The Road of Lost Innocence,   The True Story of a Cambodian Heroin by Somaly Mam  . This book is on the UMW reading list. Marlene and Margie were privileged to meet and talk with this beautiful woman, then hear her address at a recent meeting in Indianapolis.

   If you are interested in assisting Cambodian women to have meaning work as they sew BEAUTIFUL cloth bags there and offer them for sale here, please see Margie and Marlene, who are happy to show off their new bags and then help promote this industry among women in Cambodia so they will NOT have to resort to life in the brothels.

Thanks so much Margie for your contribution to our new  blog