Back on the streets, this time for good

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Inspiring story about how Peers changed the life of Thea.

Two worlds collided for Thea Cunningham when she took her 19-year-old daughter back to the corner in Victoria where she used to work as a prostitute. Cunningham, 40, night outreach co-ordinator for the sex-worker support group PEERS, radiates enthusiasm and energy, but memories of her 12 years of drugs, street sex and alcohol abuse are never far away.

Read the article: Back on the streets, this time for good

Source: Times Colonist

Author: Judith Lavoie

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