This book is unique. The reader needs to be prepared for a psycho-emotional journey into self which will confront beliefs, values and perceptions in personally and professionally challenging ways. The real authors of this text are the young women, many just girls, who give voice to their pain, often in a raw and disturbing manner. This is not a book for anyone who is not prepared to accompany these girls, their family members and their workers into the ?heart of darkness?. But it is also a book about hope, compassion and spiritual resilience.