#saveanation

Do you remember me talking about a girl I work with who was extremely selfish? Well this past weekend I happened to see something new from her which made me extremely happy and hopeful. While listening to her I placed everything down to give my full attention because, for the first time I saw sincere and genuine emotions in her voice and face. For the first time it wasn’t about her or how it affected her but it was purely about someone else and how they would feel and think.

This girl hates children, but was willing to table that for an unborn child whose parents are involved in a bad lifestyle including, smoking, drinking, drugs, stealing, etc. She told me that she would rather raise the child to give it a better life although she struggles with money herself. The chances of that happening are very slim since the mother doesn’t want to give up her child. But the fact that she had enough compassion to just try and do so was touching. She said she felt so compelled yet angered by the situation that it almost drove her to put a fist through a wall.

I couldn’t help myself and gave her a hug. I don’t give many hugs, but I gave her one and really meant it.

OMG! Somaly Mam favorited one of my replies to her tweets!

"WE'RE GOING TO CHANG CAMBODIA. WE WANT U TO HEAR FROM US. OF YOU DON'T LISTEN WE'LL KEEP ON TALKING - WE'RE NOT TIRED AT ALL." - Somaly Mam on twitter 3/24/13

“Forced eviction in Keo Phos village, Stung Hav district, Preah Sihanouk province - March 2013 Praying to the god of dirt to witness what happened and to help the people of the nation.”

This woman’s house was taken away along with many other people in Cambodia. She is asking God to witness what has happened and to help them. She also cries, begs, and prays to the angels to help her and the citizens. She is taking the dirt from the ground and pouring it on her head from the devastation of her house being taken away after all of the hard work and sacrifice she had to go through making it. She wants all of nature to witness what has happened.

She also states that she worked extremely hard to vote for Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia since 1985, who has only hurt the people of this nation since being elected. She worked so hard to save money from food just to build her own house. Now they tore down her house, don’t they know how much she is hurting. She also says that life is harder than during the Pol Pot regime, which is the Khmer Rouge/killing fields and/or genocide that took place between 1975-1980.