Heading to the streets

Every Sunday evening the Daughters of Bulgaria team head out to talk with the prostitutes in a certain area of town. They bring them coffee, tea, cookies, and soda and just generally try to get to know the girls and their needs. They have gotten to know the girls names, their kids names, a little about each girl, their background and what they've been through. They even had a birthday treat for one of the girls.

Tonight I was able to go with them. There was 7 of us piled in a van and driving the street. It was interesting to see the girls on the side of the road...their pimps in a car not far from them...just watching. We only actually got to talk to 2 girls tonight for a short while before a "user" as they refer to the customers here, came by to pick one of them up. We left at that point and drove for a bit longer before coming across 2 more girls. Before we could turn around to go back to them the police had pulled over to them. We thought they were getting arrested so we left and circled around but by the time we got back we saw they hadn't been arrested but were then getting picked up by a user. There were several SWAT trucks out and police around so many of the regular girls were not there. Just men (we assumed the pimps) were standing on the side of the road just waiting. It was eerie, and we weren't sure exactly what was going on so we left for the night.

Now I an jet lagged and headed to bed. G'night!!