![]() To learn more about how you can help fight human trafficking, visit the foundation’s website:. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. As a small child, she had the name ‘Ya’ followed by ‘Non’, as she continued to grow. She had other names that resulted from her temporary choices. ![]() As it reveals, Somaly Mam was not the author’s only name. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking-rape, torture, deprivation-until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. The Road of Lost Innocence is a must-read fascinating chef-d’oeuvre by Somaly Mam. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. ![]() A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.Ī riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hopeīorn in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. ![]()
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