Charlene was born and raised in Cape Town, but because of her parents’ addictions, she had to grow up in a children’s home. While in the children home she became very rebellious and was a difficult teen.
During her visits to one of her family members, she came in contact with her mother, who trafficked her and later introduce her to drugs and made her sell her body to men. Charlene became an expert in drug and prostitution trade and one day decided to flee from her mom’s control and became her own boss.
One of her clients fell in love with her and decided to marry her, provide her basic needs and drugs. During the marriage Charlene had convert from Christian religion to Islam religion. Her name had to change to Phatima (Islam name) and had to live according to the Islam regulations.
While married to her Muslim husband, she gave birth to a daughter. But because of her drug addiction, she neglected her daughter and ended up being divorced by her husband. She then became homeless and jobless. She was forced to go back to her old lifestyle. She then got married a guy who used to smoke crack and cocaine like her. But during this marriage she was abused a lot. And decided to leave the marriage and went to her old lifestyle again. From there her life went from bad to worse. By chance she got an odd job at a shop that was owned by an old single man. She seduced the old man to marry her for security purposes; the old man encouraged her to seek help. She was lucky enough to get government rehabilitation centre program.
During the rehabilitation she fell in love with a guy who was at the same centre with her. Charlene and new boyfriend left the program and ended up homeless and addicted to heroin.
For the past 3 months Charlene has been begging us to please help her. At first we were very hesitant, because we know her history of instability. We took Carlene to one of the rehabilitation centre. She was only there a week and decides to live the program because she misses her boyfriend.
Please pray that God will totally and completely set Carlene free from the drugs and all her past hurts.
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