I can't think of anything better than what my friends with Light Bangladesh and others like them do: build relationships with sex workers through humble service, provide a safe home for their daughters to grow up and get and education, and empower brothel girls to live lives free from forced prostitution as a minor. There is little in this world more disturbing than girls being raped for profit, and nothing more beautiful than seeing girls-at-risk living lives of freedom. Girls who were destined for the hell of being a sex worker are growing and thriving and becoming young women with a future - what could be better than that?
I came to Bangladesh about three weeks ago, the start of a 4 month stretch where I will be looking for opportunities for Speak Up to have an office here. My time has been spent in Khulna, the third largest city in the country and capital of a southwestern district of the same name. I've done a lot in these three weeks - met the leading politicians and bureaucrats of the region, visited a bunch of NGO's and schools and orphanages, connected with tons of people intrigued with an American roaming the streets - and there is so much good work that we could be doing here. But nothing moves me more
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