A teacher at one Zimbabwe school told the BBC that hundreds of girls at her school are prostituting. “It could be books, it could be biscuits, chips, some even just to be given a hug,” she said. One female student, who is orphaned, told the news service that many she knows have turned to prostituting. “I don’t want to do that but life is so difficult, so very difficult,” she said. “Both my parents are dead and I rarely see my two sisters. Recently I stood by the river and I thought about throwing myself in but I didn’t. I don’t know why.” Child traffickers could be looking to bring young girls from the nation to neighboring South Africa during 2010’s World Cup finals to works as prostitutes, the BBC reports.

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