Commercial sex workers are now accepting maize and beans for payment

Commercial sex workers are now accepting maize and beans for payment

Prostitutes in Dema Growth Point, Zimbabwe, are reportedly now

accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment

from their cash-strapped male clients.

Some of the sex workers, who spoke to New Zimbabwe,

appealed to the government and other organizations for low-interest

loans to start income-generating projects to fend for their starving families.

One of the sex workers, who only identified herself as Alice, said:

“Gone are the days when we used to charge US$5 for the whole night.

These days even one dollar is accepted, so that you are able to buy

vegetables and tomatoes and cook something for your starving children.”

Alice disclosed that she has three children, one of which is in Form four.

The child needs ZIMSEC (Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council)

registration fees while the other kids are in Grade seven and Grade One.

She added: “I now even accept a bucket of maize or cups of dried beans

as payment for sex services.

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At least I am assured that my kids will have porridge.”

Another sex worker, only identified as Mavis, said she would have opted to

be a house helper. She, however, said locals don’t pay.

The sex workers were attending a Key Affected Populations workshop

meant to find ways of reducing HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

The seminar was convened by the National Aids Council at Dema Growth Point.