A sex trafficking survivor has been given the opportunity to fulfill her childhood dream of performing with an orchestra.
Donna Dozier recently graduated from Thistle Farms, a safe place for women trying to escape prostitution, abuse, and homelessness.
Dozier said, “I’ve been in prostitution; I’ve been in sex trafficking, for at least ten years or more. And after I got out into addiction and didn’t know how to fix it.”
Dozier works at the Thistle Stop Café. She started reading poems there which were written by women in her program. The poems focus on the lives each woman have transitioned out of with the help of Thistle Farms.
Donna Dozier said, “I am from chaos and confusion. I am from my father’s lap crawling down after he passed out. I am from a pony bottle of miller genuine draft. I am from a project where I hid from my father… I am from a highway to hell on an early Saturday morning.”
These poems were published in a book called “Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart.”
Dozier said, “They gave me a purpose. That was the whole thing. I was able to get up out the bed with my heart here. And not still laying in the bed. They gave me a lot of hope.”
She was excited about being the voice for her sisters at Thistle Farms.
Dozier said, “Now I can stand like this and what enters into me now is darts of love, darts of healing, darts of hope, darts of gratitude, and that’s what thistle farms gives to these women here.”
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