![]() ![]() At age 18, the girls will decide if they want to stay or leave to look for a life in the city. “I want a better life for them,” Daw said. Daw scrapes up the $200 a year it takes to send each girl to a local school through donations. (Andrew Rothschild for Yahoo)ĭue to a generous donation, the nunnery is building a modern three-story building to house all the girls, but it won’t be ready until summer. ![]() Related: Brave or Insane? This Woman Cross-Dressed Her Way Across Afghanistanĭaw Aye Theingi is the “mother” nun. UNICEF for example, estimated in 2003 that 10,000 girls were being trafficked every year from Myanmar into Thai brothels alone. There are no reliable estimates on the number of people trafficked annually in Myanmar, although a total of 134 trafficking cases were investigated in 2008, involving 303 victims (153 female and 50 male), and 342 traffickers were prosecuted. Myanmar people are trafficked to Thailand, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Macau for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and forced labour.” ![]() “Myanmar is a source country for women, children, and men trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. According to the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking: Girls in these areas are in a precarious position, constantly in danger of being trafficked across foreign borders. Related: 12-Inch Necks: How Women Torture Themselves for Beauty in the Far East In Myanmar, being a woman is hard, more so if you are poor and live in the north of the country, where tribes are still battling the government. The large temples pay for their needs, but that’s not surprising. Monks don’t have the same economic handicaps. The nunnery is a safe place in a country where poor girls have very little hope for a safe future. ![]()
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