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I'm not logically inclined to read a book to get information on two dozen young women just outside my flat. I AM trying to help. I have to start with asking questions, even though they may seem frivolous or rhetorical. The fact is, nobody is talking about why these young women are out there, right here in front of my own nose.
A book is not going to give me specific answers about these specific girls around my flat.
In the meantime, with nobody that I can find able and willing to talk specifics, I can only speculate and aim at what I suspect is the main factor putting children on the streets selling their bodies for cash: poverty. Toward that end, I've just spent 38 months, tens of thousands of dollars in research and background, raised quite a bit of Hell, gone through a revolution, and suffered the creation of a $700 million development proposal that will demonstrably lift half a million Ukrainians out of poverty every year from now until there are no more; empty these God-forsaken "orphanages" (children's prisons) that produce thousands of children for the sex trade after they're kicked out at age 17 or so; and a communications infrastructure enabling modern-day Internet throughout Ukraine, despite what criminals in Ukraine's Communication Ministry and Ukrtelecom want to inflict on Ukraine. And the net cost of the project, within 7 years, is: zero. It pays for itself, and it's been one hell of a chore to assemble it so as to prove in advance it will work. Aside from that, I've done nothing.
And I'm preparing to raise more Hell to get funding approved, if common sense and integrity are still lacking in Ukraine. Hopefully it will undermine the root causes that put these kids on the street, or working by the hour in "banya entertainment."
I hope this clarifies things a bit.