Global News by Tag: rehabilitation
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Comfort Mwansa, 26, says she is working on rebuilding her life after leaving the sex industry in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.
The middle daughter in a family of three children, Mwansa says her parents’ divorce followed by the deaths of her mother and her sisters drove her into sex work.
GULU, UGANDA – Gloria Acen, 23, smiles, exposing her black gums that contrast her well-set white teeth. Acen, a former prostitute, says rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, which began a two-decade insurgency in northern Uganda in the late 1980s, abducted her when she was 13. She says she eventually escaped but had to become a prostitute to support herself and her siblings.