US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
Re: US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
Looks like they might be defunct, I checked their site and it was hacked last year and remains "unfixed"Anchor Moy wrote:
Don't know why you had trouble; These came up straight away.
Contact address: http://wnu.womynsagenda.org/contact.php
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Re: US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
Get washing. How many links do you need ? Here's another where the director of the WOMENS NETWORK FOR UNITY is quoted in this Khmer Times article (published less than 3 months ago). Excuse the shouting, but you seem to be hard of hearing.Otis wrote:If you can find me one bargirl or indeed any practitioner of the boom boom arts who has received any help or contact from this NGO or its affitiates or has even recently heard of them I will wash your privates in Baileys.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14744/ ... ers-surge/ (Khmer Times/Jonathan Cox and Chea TakihiroKheo Tha was driving outside Phnom Penh yesterday when she received a frantic phone call from her friend, a sex worker who works near Wat Phnom.
“She said she had been arrested,” said Ms. Tha, director of the Women’s Network for Unity. “She’s HIV positive, and she needed to stop by the hospital later in the day to get medication...
Thursday, 20 August 2015)
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/working- ... -children/Pen Sothary, a former sex worker and secretary of the sex-worker led collective Women’s Network for Unity (WNU), told IPS that many women are so poor they take whatever work they can get...
Civil Society Steps Up
In 2006 the sex worker-led collective Women’s Network for Unity (WNU) set up informal schools in drop-in centres where sex workers lived, for children between the ages of five and 16 to learn Khmer, English, mathematics and the arts.
Operating in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, the initiative has successfully reinstated 184 children into the public school system.
WNU Board Member Socheata Sim says the collective does not limit its services to children of sex workers, but extends support to people living with HIV/AIDS, and residents of slum communities who are not only living in abject poverty but are constantly threatened with eviction from their humble dwellings.
Just because you spoke to a couple of girls who don't know of it's existence doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. You say you are trying to help a friend, and I'm trying to help, but you seem more interested in scoring points against Hoefinger. The group was founded in 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%E2% ... _for_Unity and apparently still existed 3 months ago. It's "possible" but unlikely that it has been disbanded since August 2015.
If you are interested in helping your friend, why don't you at least go and see if this is address checks out: http://wnu.womynsagenda.org/contact.php
And let's forget the Baileys, ok?
The “Us” is located at the building # 3-4, Street 339, Boeng Kak I Commune, Tuol Kork District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Crosspost, try FB then. Here: https://www.facebook.com/Womens-Network ... 392875434/
Has contact phone & address.
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Then there's Daughters of Cambodia, an NGO.
https://web.facebook.com/DaughtersofCambodia/
http://daughtersofcambodia.org/Daughters of Cambodia is a faith-based group of non profit social enterprises operating in Phnom Penh with the sole purpose of offering a new life of freedom to victims of sex-trafficking and sex-exploitation in Cambodia. We reach out to those who are trapped in the sex industry and offer opportunities to them to walk free, start a new life and learn how to sustain within community settings.
https://web.facebook.com/DaughtersofCambodia/
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Re: US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
Hahaha, so true. A few years back at the Bangkok airport: a very tearful, drawn-out goodbye with lots of kisses and I-love-you-Johns. The mark had hardly gone through the departure gate when she moved a couple of hundred yards for a very tearful, drawn-out hello with lots of kisses and I-love-you-Johns.juansweetpotato wrote: Also, mosts girls/ boys , who have been in the trade a while, don't want a foreign boyfriend that lives here as it's harder for them to hide the other ones. Better to get someone living in a country with a good economy, as it means they have more cash to send each month and it makes it much easier to manage the other 9. Things start to get ugly if they spot each other .
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Yes, yes.Hotdigr wrote:C'mon Stroppy, you've met me mate. You know this is much closer to reality!
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Re: US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
1, "Daughters of Cambodia"
Help offered, for example, on the following terms, and only, of course, to those who see the light, of Christ, presumably, and leave the biz for garment labor. So nothing for practicing boom boom girls. Do note the below from one of their supposed clients, redeemed, thank God, not merely from horizontal exertions but from animism as well
"Now I have hope and I have a plan for the future. I want to learn everything I can learn at Daughters, and then I want to have my own sewing machine to sew in my own home. The church program at Daughters makes me feel better. My leg was so painful, and I struggled to go downstairs to attend church, but then I put my mind on God and my pain disappeared! After that I was able to go to church. Other people in the community told me not to trust in Jesus, that people who trust in Jesus don’t have food to eat and hate their mothers. But I didn’t believe them. Now I am a Christian, and I know the truth. I have a new life, and its getting brighter and brighter."
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Help offered, for example, on the following terms, and only, of course, to those who see the light, of Christ, presumably, and leave the biz for garment labor. So nothing for practicing boom boom girls. Do note the below from one of their supposed clients, redeemed, thank God, not merely from horizontal exertions but from animism as well
"Now I have hope and I have a plan for the future. I want to learn everything I can learn at Daughters, and then I want to have my own sewing machine to sew in my own home. The church program at Daughters makes me feel better. My leg was so painful, and I struggled to go downstairs to attend church, but then I put my mind on God and my pain disappeared! After that I was able to go to church. Other people in the community told me not to trust in Jesus, that people who trust in Jesus don’t have food to eat and hate their mothers. But I didn’t believe them. Now I am a Christian, and I know the truth. I have a new life, and its getting brighter and brighter."
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Any Christians out there want to address that?
Do you hate your mother? Are you hungry?
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I know that organisation, I know NGOers that work there, and I know some of the rescued. Let's see if I can put this simply... you're talking shit.Otis wrote:1, "Daughters of Cambodia"
Help offered, for example, on the following terms, and only, of course, to those who see the light, of Christ, presumably, and leave the biz for garment labor. So nothing for practicing boom boom girls. Do note the below from one of their supposed clients, redeemed, thank God, not merely from horizontal exertions but from animism as well
"Now I have hope and I have a plan for the future. I want to learn everything I can learn at Daughters, and then I want to have my own sewing machine to sew in my own home. The church program at Daughters makes me feel better. My leg was so painful, and I struggled to go downstairs to attend church, but then I put my mind on God and my pain disappeared! After that I was able to go to church. Other people in the community told me not to trust in Jesus, that people who trust in Jesus don’t have food to eat and hate their mothers. But I didn’t believe them. Now I am a Christian, and I know the truth. I have a new life, and its getting brighter and brighter."
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Re: US Professor Heidi Hoefinger Examines the Idea of ‘Professional Girlfriends’ in Cambodia
As a long time academic, I noticed a couple of things. First, no respectable university would approve of the picture in the OP. This led me to check on Berkeley College. It's a for-profit school, which are rarely if ever legit research sources. And lastly, she's an adjunct, in other words, part-time. Adjuncts are not professors.
None of this is meant to impugn her research as I haven't read it. But I would also be reluctant to cite it.
None of this is meant to impugn her research as I haven't read it. But I would also be reluctant to cite it.
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