The Road of Lost Innocence, written by Somaly Mam, is the story of her own childhood in which she was sold by her grandfather into sexual slavery. For a decade of her young life, she was shipped in and out of a number of brothels in Cambodia, forced to live a life of deprivation in the human trafficking ring of Southeast Asia. She eventually gained freedom through the help of a French aid worker and uses her freedom to enforce change on the world. She has courageously campaigned raids on brothels in order to rescue sex slaves, built shelters, started schools, and an organization that has saved over 4,000 women and children in Cambodia from the same life she once suffered from.
Somaly Mam currently resides in both Cambodia and France. She co-founded an organization in Europe called Acting for Women in Distressing Situations, as well as an organization in the U.S. called The Somaly Mam Foundation, (check out the website here - http://www.somaly.org/) whose goal it is to save and socially integrate former Southeast Asian sex slaves into society. Glamour named her Woman of the Year in 2006 for her incredible work. She is a strong example for women all over the world to take a stand and make a difference.
Her book can be found at your local bookstore, or can be ordered on Amazon, here :
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