Posted by: jeffmooney | June 14, 2009

Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food

The BBC article summarizes as follows.

The older one, who is 14, said she knows many girls here who have become prostitutes.

“I don’t want to do that but life is so difficult, so very difficult. Both my parents are dead and I rarely see my two sisters. Recently I stood by the river and I thought about throwing myself in but I didn’t. I don’t know why.”

There is also evidence that many girls are being targeted by child traffickers, Save the Children’s country director Rachel Pounds says.

They are thought to have plans to send young Zimbabwean girls to South Africa to work as prostitutes during next year’s football World Cup finals.

Read the whole thing here.

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