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Article: Please solicit your customers discreetly: the issue of sex work in Namibia.(HUMAN RIGHTS)
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- Sister Namibia
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- August 1, 2008
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"We are suffering!" This is the first thing Dorina* says when I ask her about her life as a sex worker. She has been working as a sex worker since she was sixteen years old. Her grandmother had just died, and with no other caregiver to provide food, clothes or money for school fees, she turned to the streets to survive. Dorina is now twenty-one and the harsh life she leads is beginning to show on her face. She looks old and tired but she is eager to tell her story so that "people will understand how hard it is for us". She hates doing sex work and warns girls to stay away from the streets.
Dorina's story
Dorina complains that it is dangerous to work on ...