Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and Covid-19

Mutare, Zimbabwe -

The southern African nation is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade, with crippling hyperinflation, unemployment, strikes by public workers and shortages of food, medicine and foreign currency.Sex workers and charities providing them with health care services said the number of women selling sex has increased, particularly young girls facing hunger at home.

"As our incomes, like the cross border trading - the importation of weaves and makeup kits from China for resale - got eroded during the lockdown, we had to turn to men for survival." "The lockdowns in the tourism and hospitality sector, transport, aviation and leisure services, manufacturing, fast food and retailing and sports have resulted in massive retrenchments and layoffs in the last seven months," he added.’’

The closure of brothels has pushed sex workers into riskier places, like secluded fields and deserted buildings, said Charmaine Dube, programme coordinator for the sex worker rights group Pow Wow in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city.

Very educated and hardworkers this ones, if they think sex work is the way to go, no one should advice them otherwise or feel sorry for them.

False news will lends you in deep trouble

What has happened with the land that was taken away from the white farmers.

... but men have money for sex-workers? Where are their families? (I do not judge sex-workers, never.)

This is so incredibly sad

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