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14 July 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 09:55 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A Zambian TV channel has launched a reality show to help former prostitutes find husbands.<\/p>\n

The 18 sex workers stand to win a cash prize of about $9,000 (\u00a35,500) and have their wedding paid for.<\/p>\n

Muvi TV, which is hosting the Ready for Marriage show, said it wanted to give them a second chance in life.<\/p>\n

“We want to make a difference to women’s lives. These are people, after all,” its spokesperson Coreena Paulina said.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Mutuna Chanda in the capital, Lusaka, says there has been little controversy around the show.<\/p>\n

No other women have been included in the contest.<\/p>\n

A local preacher, Reverend Jeff Musonda, gave his qualified support to the sex workers’ participation.<\/p>\n

“If those people have transformed and stopped their acts, I find no problem. But if it’s just for wooing viewership, I would have reservations,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.<\/p>\n

‘Consolation prize’<\/span><\/p>\n

Muvi TV said it had recruited the women from the streets in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cStart Quote<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Once a prostitute, always a prostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Humphrey Banda<\/span> Lusaka resident<\/span><\/div>\n

Some contestants said they sold their bodies because they were single mothers who could not afford to look after their children.<\/p>\n

“I needed to sustain my living and that of my [two] children,” Precious Kawainga, 28, said.<\/p>\n

“I found prostitution because of rejection. The father to my children turned his back on me,” said another.<\/p>\n

Muvi TV said all contestants who were voted out by viewers would receive consolation prizes of between $1,000 and $1,500.<\/p>\n

They would also be offered full-time jobs so that they did not return to prostitution, it said.<\/p>\n

The reaction of viewers in the capital, Lusaka, has been mixed.<\/p>\n

“Once a prostitute, always a prostitute. It is very difficult for them to just change overnight,” one viewer, Humphrey Banda, said.<\/p>\n

However, another, Prisca Chisenga, expressed a contrary view.<\/p>\n

“It is not fair to judge them by their past,” she said.<\/p>\n

When reality television was first introduced in Zambia more than five years ago, there was outrage from clergymen who said it would corrupt moral values.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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