like a girl when I was 7. I got surgery when I was 15. ~ a ladyboy
dresses like a woman and often gets sex change surgery)
need to support, so I work in the bars and send the money back home
to them…I
will get to go see them in 4 months.
I work every single day. If I
want a day off I have to pay 500 baht (about 15 USD).
My husband was beating me so I left him to be a prostitute.
Do you want to buy me for the week?
Ten of us girls sleep in one
room, and we are not allowed to leave.
I have been working in the bar for only 4 days. I hate that I
have to drink, I don’t like being drunk.
These are the heart-wrenching stories we hear every night.
Most have traveled from another part of Thailand because their friend recruited
them, promising them good pay. And a few of them are making good money, but that’s the only thing that keeps them at
the bars. When I look into their eyes, past their “happy face” they put on, I
know they do not actually want to be there. Empty. Bored. Hopeless. Numb. Lonely.
This is what they sit in night after night. These are God’s beloved daughters, they just don’t know it yet! I get
overwhelmed. Then God reminds me…
Love the one in front of you.
lifestyle they feel stuck in. One by one we have been loving the ones God
directs us to, offering them the option of living and working at SHE. Most are
reluctant about another “job offer”. We are told it often takes many months for
the girls to actually leave the bars. But we are privileged to be a part of
that process, planting the seeds. We know that other Race teams are coming here
the next 2 months, and so we will pass the baton onto them to continue fighting in
the battlefield on Bangla Road.
