BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day. Suha, 37, is a mother of three. She says her husband thinks she is cleaning houses when she leaves home. "People shouldn't criticize women, or talk badly about them," says 37-year-old Suha as she adjusts the light colored scarf she wears these days to avoid extremists who insist women cover themselves. "They all say we have lost our way, but they never ask why we had to take this path."
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Aid workers: Violence, increased cost of living drive women to prostitution
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Group is working to raise awareness of the problem with Iraq's political leaders
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Two Iraqi mothers tell CNN they turned to prostitution to help feed their children
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"Everything is for the children," one woman says
A mother of three, she wears light makeup, a gold pendant of @placeholder around her neck, and an unexpected air of elegance about her.