I may be sinking into fb/twitter lingo, but I just became a fan of Somaly Mam.

A member of the Phnong ethnic minority of Cambodia, Somaly grew up alone in the forests of the Mondulkiri province after the disappearence of her family, before being taken in by a man who posed as her grandfather, who then began to abuse her and in the end sell her to a local brothel. That’s how she ended up in sexual slavery at an age of sixteen, enduring torture, rape and unspeakable abuse. After years she managed to escape by marrying a Frenchman, and now leads the Somaly Mam Foundation which works against the industry of sexual labour and human trafficking. The foundation leads a rescue and rehabilitation program that has so far effectively gotten more than 5.000 girls and women out of prostitution and helped them get an education.

So now I have a pending friend request for her on Facebook .. she also twitters:

her dead comes up with bubble from mouth and noise seems she committed suicides or spoiled by food
3 days ago

The Road of Lost Innocence is the number 1 selling in Demark
1 day ago

cooked foods for the survivors in Kampong Cham center
12 hours ago

brought the survivors to Pagoda. We made small funeral ceremony indicate Lak Kimseng who dead last Saturday
12 hours ago

enjoyed receiption under honorable of Queen of Spain’s right hand
12 hours ago

Busy lady.