![]() ![]() ![]() In 1996, Mam and her now ex-husband, Pierre Legros, established Agir Pour Les Femmes en Situation Précaire (Afesip). I don’t want to give them more problems.” “If we told them we’ve closed it, they wouldn’t know how to take it. “They all want to know what has happened to the clinic,” Mam said. Although the women accepted the condoms and milk, the majority were more interested in one particular topic. One of Mam’s aides handed some dollar bills to another of her staff members, who returned minutes later with a carrier bag loaded with milk cartons, which were divided between the mothers. Mam had not visited this small community for two weeks and, as they spoke, she let out anguished sighs. ![]() Some told her about personal problems others shared local gossip. However, when a woman arrived with an 18-day-old child wrapped in a towel, it was time for the women to talk and Mam to listen.Įach of them took a turn. For more than 30 minutes she had been laughing and joking with the women, demonstrating the camaraderie she enjoys with those she calls either her “girls” or her “daughters”. Somaly Mam, holding boxes of OK condoms in one hand and K-Y Jelly in the other, sat in a Phnom Penh brothel surrounded by a dozen or so sex workers. Now she is on the comeback trailīy David Hutt Photography by Bernardo Salce But following a Newsweek article that accused her of fabricating parts of her life story, Mam’s reputation was left in tatters. Somaly Mam was one of the world’s leading figures in the fight against human trafficking. ![]()
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