A friend involved in AIDS care has read the report Trafficking of Young Girls below and supported the message given.
TRAFFICKING OF YOUNG GIRLS
He advised that the problem of poverty is worse particularly in settlements where there is such grinding poverty that families go without food and sleep at night with only a drink of water.
He said that he has seen homes in the settlements where families allow men to come in and pay to have sex with daughters. It is safer for the daughters to do that than go out and seek sex away from the family.
Squatter settlements have a wide range of families living there. Many office workers come from settlements having been driven out of their homes in the suburbs by the high rents. The slab homes in settlements have high rents too. Many settlement families have no income.
Families live with poverty and seek money whatever way they can. There is hopelessness in family views of the future. Who among us has the right to judge? Perhaps a bottle of homebrew and a marijuana cigarette will drive away the hunger for the night.
There is no place for ideology and blame. Survival is the overriding need. PNG is in a whirl pool of prosperity and poverty. Rights and responsibilities of women and girls is one among many needs that are becoming completely unattainable.
Yet in the shop at Air Niugini Village, the storekeeper has a problem every day. So many people arrive to buy goods with hundred kina notes. It is those people unemployed who never shop there. Many can not afford to buy anything.
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