Butterfly Tears: Stories of Entrapment to Empowerment

Butterfly Tears...a Powerful Voice for Empowering Women
“Welcome to my world.
I am twenty-five years old and I have spent most of my life dead.
This is my story and the stories of other young women like me,
who have fought tremendously with the world and with life.
Courageous young women—
willing to share all they’ve endured; how they survived;
and how they finally began to live...”
—Kaysie, Pathways to Independence

So many women’s lives are shattered before they even have a chance to begin—
girls...