The gems of humanity...

We are all involved in our own lives. Every days work, our own lives, etc. Not many of us bother to get out of our comfort levels. Yet there are a few who do so, the gems of humanity.
All societies have them. . Those who risk their lives for other people. Those people who strive to make the world a better place. Today I talk about one such. I recently read a Readers Digest article about her. Although there are so many I should be talking about, this post is devoted to her. Somaly Mam.

This woman has saved thousands of children from a tragic present and has built a new future for them, a bright future full of hope. She's got light into the lives of numerous children. She has also had a tragic past, this is how her story starts.

A little Cambodian girl, living on her own, surviving on the little food the villagers gave her as kindness, sleeping on a hammock in the forest in the tiny village of Bou Sra.
She didn't know her parents and had never seen them. The villagers called her Non or little one.
She lived alone.
One day she was introduced to a visitor, that day was when her life became hell. He promised to help her find her parents. But instead of helping her he tortured her, he made her his slave and raped her by the time she was thirteen. When she was sixteen she was sold to a brothel owner.

She was traumatized in the brothel, in the 'punishment room' a celler with no window and a container of snakes slithering around her, the door shut, tied to a chair, her screams were never heard, by the owners of the brothel, by the costumers, by the whole regularity of brutality, by the overall way her life was, she even witnessed the murder of a friend.

At 21 she was free to leave and then she met her husband, Pierre. They moved to France.She then went back and rescued so many girls who were child prostitutes and today as I wrote in the earlier paragraph she is saving so many children from a from a tragic present and has built a new future for them, a bright future full of hope.

She is a gem of humanity, a true gem and there are only a few people in the world who are true gems. She did change the world, someones world and I hope some day I change if not the world then at least someones world. Peace.