Hope for the Fatherless: Meet Masha an orphan who was rescued from a life of forced prostitution.
April 14, 2010 by admin
Filed under Beyond Adoption - Fathers For The Fatherless
Masha left the orphanage at 15 and was sent to a tech school–an underfunded holding tank for kids who learn how to lay brick or paint walls.
One day, a group of professional looking, wealthy women came to the school and interviewed the girls for the best jobs in Russia.
They were promised fancy clothes, expensive jewelry, and all the money they could hope for if they were selected.
Masha was chosen, and she thought her dreams had come true.
She was taken to the city center, put in a rundown apartment and beaten.
They forced her to work in a strip club. Then, they told some men were coming to her apartment to train her to learn how to have sex with a man–how to “please” him.
“You’ll be pleasing 10 men each day,” they said.
Masha quickly realized this dream had turned into a ugly nightmare. She was hours away from entering the sex trade. The life of a forced prostitute awaited her, and she was scared to death.
While this was unfolding, she remembered the staff at Children’s HopeChest. “Could they help me?”
She told me how she remembered how much our staff cared for her and other orphans. She knew exactly where to go. She had a plan. She walked out the door and ran to the HopeChest Ministry Center in Kostroma.
Our staff immediately called the authorities, and brought her to a safe place to live so she’d be protected.
It is young girls like Masha we are supporting with this Mother’s Day necklace fundraiser. When you purchase a necklace, a young women like Masha will recieve two weeks of direct assistance like food, clothing, etc. for her and her baby.
great post as usual!