The Association of Women for the Promotion of Community Development (AMPDC), a Mozambican non-governmental organization (NGO), today estimated that more than 2,000 girls are involved in child prostitution in Sofala province, in the center of the country.
"More than 2,000 girls are involved in prostitution in the province. The phenomenon is taking place in the districts of Beira, Dondo, Nhamatanda, Chibabava, Caia and Búzi, in the latter due to the resettlement centers created in 2019," following cyclone Idai, Ângela Jorge, the NGO's executive director, told Lusa.
Jorge said that the 2,000 cases reported involve girls between the ages of 13 and 20 "who are forced into prostitution or do so of their own free will".
"There are cases of girls being sexually abused and forced into prostitution (...) sometimes it's the age of adolescence that leads them into it, other times it's the family breakdown, it's the social context they're in. So all of these contexts contribute to the child's prostitution. These are ages when it's easy to be deceived," she said.
The director of AMPDC stressed the need to join forces to combat this phenomenon.
"Society must unite in the fight against child prostitution," she stressed.
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