Interview with Author/Activist Somaly Mam

An interview with Somaly Mam.
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Education

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• Somaly
• Mam
• interview
• human
• trafficking
• Asia
• prostitution
• Cambodia

[Chaplin8642]

I just finished reading her book. I still have tears in my eyes. It's a book that describes violence end inhumanity that goes beyound my wildest imagination. But it also shows a woman with such personal power that she despite of own suffering is able to help others. She is a living saint!!! Buy the book and suport her work!!

[WilliamKenower]

What impressed me most about Somaly when I interviewed her was her love. Not just for the girls, but her understanding that what the girls needed more than anything was love. Whatever anger she might have for the people who tortured her - I did not see it when I spoke to her.

[WyolaP]

@WilliamKenower People like her and I have gone through so much pains.

Weve called for help but no one there do anything.

Weve cried for compassions but they thinks were crazy.

Weve learned to push our feeling aside like there is no one to talk to...

Weve learned to love like there is no one else to love...

Weve learned to live like there is no tomorrow...

Weve learned that life is a forever changing event...

Weve live it differently each & everyday that life gives us...

[WilliamKenower]

@WyolaP

Wyola:

The most profound thing Ms. Mam shared with me was her commitment to the concept of love. I could imagine no greater physical suffering than hers, and yet she remained committed to the healing power of love above all else. She lives with her suffering still, but she chooses to travel every day as best she can toward love. It is all any of us can do.

[vivienkhoo94]

whts the title of her book??....anyone can tell me??... i dont think its sold here in my country...

[WilliamKenower]

The book is called, "The Road of Lost Innocence." It is published by Spiegel & Grau in the U. S.

[melgrimes]

She is such an inspiration!

[GeetarAdam]

I was also struck by the tenacity with which she held to her love. It would seem like that flame would've been extinguished by all she experienced, but it just goes to show that human dignity is not some man-made concept. It is created within each of us and is an in-born part of who we are. We humans are not mere animals. We are not just biological machines. Our true essence is spiritual and infinite!

[FatherImReady]

Somaly Mam is my hero.

[MrRodrifico]

A beautiful human being through and through! What a better world this would be if we had more people of this caliber!

[angel2geek]

I read her book not knowing what she looked like. She described herself as an ugly person with dark skin (because as she explains in the book, according to Cambodias social standard, the lighter your skin is the more beautiful you are). Now, I type her name on youtube and all I see is, is a gorgeous woman.

[Lan1998]

I met her at WPC and she was so nice!

[chiquita6905]

she is such a stong women. this book made me cry to see all the struggles tht she had 2 overcome and to me sshe has become a big role model.

[WyolaP]

@WilliamKenower

hello william,

i know she is, i can see and feel the pain in her eyes....cause of the BAD things that happed to me 5yrs old till i was 9yrs old, and in thtat 4yrs all the nightmares from around the world came true on me. those bad things never break me instead it make me stronger.

thank you for your quik respond, Wyola

[WyolaP]

@WilliamKenower Were not in it anymore but the pains still there.

Instead of hatred we brings/influence love.

the knowing hurts us every day in life.

The physical pains of blacks and blues had faded away...

The mental pains that I once knew never go away...

These pains are here to stay till angel close our eyes...