Jaclyn-A child prostitute at 14,an AIDS activist today

Ms Srey Mom, from Cambodia, started working at the age of seven, was abandoned at 10 and was totured into becoming a child prostitute at 14.
At 16, she contracted the HIV virus.Now, at 20, she is an activist and determined to help other Cambodian girls avoid her fate.
For many of the Singapore students who attended the World Vision's 30-hour Famine Camp at the Anglo-Chinese School in Barkey Road, she voiced on out the problems of human trafficking and child prostitution which affect Cambodia and other South-east Asian countries.
The World Vision agency has run the camp annually since 1985 to educate and motivate Singapore youths to act on global issues such as hunger, poverty, HIV/Aids and the environment.
It is estimated that up to 30,000 sex workers are estimated to be below 16 years old and about a fifth of the country's female sex workers are infected with HIV.


Personal views:

I trult sympathize with those who were forced and tortured into the service of child prostitution.I felt really blessed to be living in Singapore,which thankfully is one country which stresses on the importance of human rights.Therefore,we should help the less fortunate by playing a part and help to prevent these situations from happening.The World Vision agency has played a great role in spreading the messages such as prevent from having unprotected sex.Hence,in order to prevent the shocking number of 30000 sex workers to fall in the hands of HIV/AIDS,we should use all forms of communications to spread the messages.