Widow fired from her job

The mother of these girls contacted Geraldine after she was fired from her job in a garment factory where she worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week for $40 a month making T-shirts for export. Her husband had been killed the year before in a car accident and she was alone in the world. It would have broken your heart to see how much she loved her girls. She told us that she had been offered $600 for one to be sold into a child brothel and that she did not want to do this, but in a week, if she had not eaten, she might be tempted to sell her. So could we please save her children by taking them and giving them a safe future. We told her how proud we were of her for finding us to take care of her girls, as many mothers in Cambodia sell their children into prostitution or child labour to make ends meet. We promised her we would take care of her lovely girls and when we drove away with them she was still standing in the street, waving goodbye with tears streaming down her face. The girls cried the first few nights sleeping without their mother, but settled in amazingly well.