Non Profit Organisation Protection of Adults and Children Trust Zimbabwe (PACT) threw an end of year lunch for about thirty young women and men whose day to day lives involve sex work from tender ages of twelve at Mbizi Game Park in Harare.
The organization clearly showed that as the holy book reads that not only a rod of correction keeps a child on the right track but that love conquers all, and through getting to know a person’s background before passing the wrong judgement can change them into a better person.
On listening to these young “sex workers” stories which are a nightmare and hard to ponder, on why they resorted to sleep with men at such young ages for money, it is heartbreaking that most of them are orphans heading families and trading the forbidden fruit is their only means of survival in the harsh economy which has been unkind to them.
PACT, an organization which is widely spreading in different countries mobilized well-wishers to donate towards this once in a lifetime event for the second time. The young people were fed and showered with clothes and groceries.
“I am grateful to PACT and all who donated these nice clothes and food for us, at least this holiday me and my two young siblings are not going to starve and this will save me from the pain of sleeping with older men. The $3 short time money that I sometimes get will never match the value of all I received today,” said Rudo a 15 year old sex worker from Hopley.
All of them still spoke of their dream to leave the oldest enterprise given the opportunity and go back to school and fulfill their dreams.
