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My name is Jenny Marcela Paez…
I have two children and I'm 27 years old.
I live in Bogota, at the South Boulevard neighborhood.
I live a happy life, because I am a new person My life was restored!
My Dad was assassinated in a horrible way, because he used to rob in order to feed us. When that happened a family took us in, supposedly as their children…
They said they were going to help us, but that did not happen,
One of them sexually abused me many times…
They would send us out on the street barefoot to beg. They did not help us.
One day someone told me I was pretty and could find a way of providing for my family and for myself, so fed up with the life I had, I took to working on the street as a ***.
I did it for 10 years. Since I was 13, until I turned 23 and don’t wish that life for anybody!
When you get the money, you feel a sort pleasure, because suddenly you can buy what you need and want, but your life becomes worthless, like a dirty rag.
You loose all sense of self worth as a woman.
I arrived at CDA because of my daughters, enrolling them at their School.
As a result, many good things begun happening.
I was offered the possibility to learn a skill and change my way of life.
I chose to study to become a baker.
I thank God because now I think and feel differently. I think often of what the future of my girls will be… Because I don’t want them ever to face what I did.
You see, it is a terrible feeling to know that you are out with one man after another, while your daughters are alone at home, at risk and waiting for you.
It’s terrible to think that you are contaminating and destroying yourself and worst of all your children…
I don’t want my girls to ever go through what I have faced.
After I took the decision to change my life, God has always been there.
Not just in one way, but surprising me in many different circumstances. He keeps me calm… and gave me Missy… She is like the Mother I never had.
I give thanks to God, for putting in my life people to help me and am proud to promote the work of CDA, by sharing my story with you!