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UNICEF reports that, in order to serve customer demand for women, several small private agencies have been set up to recruit women in the rural areas. The women are promised highly paid jobs in factories and restaurants, which sounds appealing to both the young women and their parents who can receive a high-interest loan for the arrangement of their daughter's trip. Once brought to some city, the women are forced to work as prostitutes. It is estimated that over half of the child sex workers started working as prostitutes by advice or persuasion of recruiters using deceiving methods to convince families in villages. These recruiters, in turn, work on behalf of brothel owners in order to be able to offer new 'fresh' girls for their brothel. Another non-negligible part of the supply were those women deliberately brought into prostitution by relatives of the girls. UNICEF reports that, in order to serve customer demand for women, several small private agencies have been set up to recruit women in the rural areas. The women are promised highly paid jobs in factories and restaurants, which sounds appealing to both the young women and their parents who can receive a high-interest loan for the arrangement of their daughter's trip. Once brought to some city, the women are forced to work as prostitutes. It is estimated that over half of the child sex workers started working as prostitutes by advice or persuasion of recruiters using deceiving methods to convince families in villages. These recruiters, in turn, work on behalf of brothel owners in order to be able to offer new 'fresh' girls for their brothel. Another non-negligible part of the supply were those women deliberately brought into prostitution by relatives of the girls. Besides trafficking for prostitution within Vietnam, children have been reported to be trafficked for adoption purposes. Hopkins mentions kidnapping of babies from a hospital with the purpose of selling them to childless Vietnamese and Viet Kieu families as well as foreigners. In the same line, children are said to be sold for their organs. However, there is no evidence of the truth or prevalence of these practices. TRAFFICKING FROM VIETNAM TO CAMBODIA The idea of the seductive powers of Vietnamese women forms a recurrent theme in explanations of how the Vietnamese will try to overtake Cambodian territory. Because of their seducing skills, Vietnamese women can easily convince border police to let them cross into Cambodia, and their overwhelming presence (especially as prostitutes) could, according to some Cambodians, again lay the groundwork for a major Vietnamese takeover or at least could pose a threat to Cambodian culture and society. This conspiracy theory or fantasy regarding the influx of Vietnamese women and girls as spies of a greater power that will eventually take over, are a far cry from the stories the women and girls themselves recount about their reasons for and experiences in coming to Cambodia. A Vietnamese young woman, who was working as prostitute in Kompong Som, explained why she followed a neighbor to Cambodia: "My family was very poor. We only had five cong of farmland. My mother borrowed money from a moneylender to buy rice grain, fertilizers and to hire people to plough the field. After we harvested the rice, we nearly used all of it to repay the debts. We did not have enough left for food for all of us. My mother has three children and I am the eldest. I wanted to come to Cambodia to earn money for my mother and my brother and sister. So I followed a woman who lived in my village and who had been in Cambodia before... I must sacrifice my body for my family." Not only relatives and neighbours help new Vietnamese migrant families go to Cambodia. Specialized leaders also offer their services. These people are experienced in crossing the border. They are responsible for the whole trip and charge money according to the amount of people. A border official in Svay Rieng commented: "There are Vietnamese from all provinces coming to Cambodia. They can come to work here. Most of these Vietnamese were led by neak noam [leaders]. They agreed to sell their rice fields to get some money to pay the neak noam. The neak noam gathers two or three families and brings them here... It is much easier to earn money here than in Vietnam. Even the vegetable sellers can earn more money here. Therefore the Vietnamese always want to come here... They don't only come to work as prostitutes, but also to sell cigarettes, second-hand clothes or as workers."