Nashville Escorts: Silk Scarves Combat Sex Trade

23 12 2009

FARMER: Volunteers aren’t required to be tech whizzes either.
Mr. RIDDLE: Whoops.
FARMER: Seventy-three-year-old Charles Riddle plays hunt and peck as he types shipping information for two brightly colored scarves – one lime, one berry. Riddle and his wife, Ann, have been spending their Mondays learning the ropes of e-commerce at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Nashville.
Ms. ANN RIDDLE: We do a lot of volunteer work. But I mean, the volunteer work I do, I’m not sure how much I really make a difference, but I really feel like I make a difference here.
FARMER: The neatly folded scarves piled on the shelves were woven in the rural village of Stung Treng on the Mekong River. If not for the weaving jobs, the women who work there would likely be forced into prostitution.

See the full article from “WBUR”


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