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Viktoriya Kashin, a 25-year-old Russian immigrant living in Cleveland, Tenn., has a life story that appears to have been scripted by a higher power.
While most people have personal narratives filled with detours and switchbacks, Kashin’s life seems to be barreling ahead toward something really big. Recently, that “something big” has begun to take shape.
The young nurse is among the volunteers who are marching off to thwart human traffickers who are enslaving poor, young women (many of them children) from former Soviet-bloc nations to work as involuntary prostitutes in European brothels.
“It feels like my whole life has been leading up to this,” said Kashin, who is almost halfway to her goal of raising $10,000 to travel to Greece and the Ukraine later this year to assist young sex-industry workers who have fled from their captors.