“Look, I move from pillar to post in this life,” the words of a teenager who only recently celebrated her 15th birthday, but who in her relatively short time on this earth has had horrible and traumatic life experiences.
After losing her mother at age five, she was moved from one house to the next, never really finding a place to call home and she was repeatedly abused by those who were supposed to care for her.
But even more disturbing is the fact that she was one of the females who were rescued from the interior by the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) earlier this year, where she was being forced to work as a prostitute. The shocking truth about her age was revealed after she was encouraged by GWMO President Simona Broomes to secure an identification card in order to