Last week I failed to blog about the book The Road of Lost Innocence. I just couldn’t get it read in time. So I’m blogging about how much I love this book today. It’s a memoir by Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who fights for justice for young children who have been sold into sexual slavery.
Mam’s book is powerful. Lost Innocence details the tragic yet intimate memories of Mam as she recalls her own story of being sold into sexual slavery as a child. Miraculously, with the help of an aid worker, she survived and now she works to save others who are enduring the awful reality of childhood sex slavery.
Mam’s prose is full of conviction with descriptions that are often heartwrenching. But her words never get in the way of her passion, which is raw and authentic and bears the scars of a woman who, because of the pain she endured, is living out a mission of mercy. Be aware that the narrative is sometimes harsh and painful to read, but there’s victories and miracles along the way that keep the story uplifting and hopeful.
I believe this is an important story that all of us should read, if only to be informed about the travesties of human trafficking and the heroes who are attempting to bring redemption to the pains that the victims of trafficking endure.
I highly recommend this book.
Visit www.Somaly.org
Watch these videos for more information on human trafficking:
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This is horrific, but so necessary to be aware of. I think it is one of those issues that carries with it such horror that we become almost inert in response to it. Until it becomes in some way personal.
We have an eleven year old Vietnamese daughter who we adopted when she was five months old. She was born into poverty and placed in a social protection center (orphanage). In that sense she was one of the fortunate ones. A country over, little girls (and boys) born into poverty may have very different experiences. Poverty drives people to desperate places. I became aware of this again this summer when I was in Roatan, Honduras. I was there on a writing retreat. It is a beautiful and idyllic setting if you can somehow divorce yourself from surrounding poverty. But there are those who cannot and they are trying to effect change. Children go down to the cruise ship docks where they await visits from pedophiles disembarking to this paradise which becomes their hell. Why? Because there is no work, no food, no money…no hope for the moment. But that changes when courageous and caring people take a stand and provide practical relief as well as the love of Christ.
We own land on Roatan and it is our dream to move there and serve at some yet distant point. These special and hurting children have captured my heart. I believe we must be moved to action.
Thanks for sharing this important work.