The conference in the topic of Human Trafficking took place at Budapest, in April 2005. We have given information about it in our previous issue. According to this conference women began to talk about it and connected with trafficking we had got the next very moving testimony from Moldova.

Having received all the information and testimonies connected with the trafficking we decided to organise meetings for young women and teenagers. At the end of May and at the beginning of June we led seminars in 8 regions of our country. The topic was Psalm 119:9. We talked about female's purity, dates, friendship and about the future possibilities of young women. As we talked about the trafficking we underlined that there are women being sold from Moldova into slavery, a young woman, we name her A., stood up and talked about her awful experience being sold one of the countries.

"I had got married in 1998. I have two children. I want to share with you what happened with me four years ago. It happened that my husband got into prison. I was left with a small child expecting the other one. It was very hard, I had nothing to feed my child. My father died earlier, my mother was invalid. Once unknown people came into my village and offered job for me. They told I could work in a market. Everything would be okay and I would receive $100 per month. I hid my pregnancy being afraid not to receive this job. They told: "Don't worry about your child, take him with you, we shall look after him, you will just work and receive the salary." After this promise, they took me to another village. There I saw two young women with children. Something strange was about it, but I didn't understand what it was. A few days later, we were sent to a big city. The next day they forced us to beg at the underground station. If we refused begging, our owners beat our kid in our presence. But it wasn't enough. At night they invited men and forced us to have sex with them. And it continued until I was in the 9th month of my pregnancy. Nobody paid attention that I was expecting a baby.

This continued till the day when one of the women heard the "owners" were talking that they were waiting for my child's birth in order to sell him for organs. That was the time when this woman and me decided to run away. At night when our owners were drunk, we got up at the dawn and ran away with our children. Of course our owners heard it and came after us to the trolley station. She wanted to take away the child of my friend. The angered mother having seen that her child was being taken away, seized the owner's hair and began to beat her at the stopped trolley bus. If she had taken the child we would have to return back. That woman, two children and me changed our trolley bus at every station being afraid that the owner will catch up by a taxi. First night we slept under the bushes. We hadn't documents. We knew the police wouldn't help us because they had a share in this business.

The owners would be looking for us in such places as underground, so the only thing we could do was to collect bottles to buy some food for our children. Once when we failed to find anything we decided to get down into the underground for 10-15 minutes to beg some money and buy food for our children. We just sat when a woman approached us and asked: "Why are you sitting here?" We told her the truth. She proposed to get out of the underground because it was dangerous to talk there. We went outside. The same day she invited us to her place. She was a committed Baptist. For two days we were sleeping and couldn't awake as we were very exhausted. Then we went to her pastor and told him our story. He called a Christian policeman who went for our documents to get those back from our owners. He was successful and even got train tickets for us. The day before our leaving my baby was born. The church helped me as much as they could. They asked me to stay with them while the baby gets stronger, then we returned home. No doubt here, in your own place you will got job, you can fulfill your needs. Don't believe them who offers good job and lot of money, they are liars. Pray to God, read the Bible, the Lord hears you and loves you as you are. He won't leave His children in need or sorrow."

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