this is an answer from the Q&A blog. feel free to ask more! 🙂
Question: What was the hardest thing / statistic / story you heard about sex trafficking, and what will you do in the future to help that situation?
Answer: First of all, let me say there’s more to human trafficking than sex, and there’s more to the sex industry than slavery. It’s easy to confuse the two, but it’s important not to.
Human trafficking is any kind of coerced labor- sexual, manual, military, you name it.
The sex industry is populated by people, male and female, who are there by choice and by coercion, and one of the difficulties is figuring out who needs to be ‘rescued’ and who needs to be blown up sorry, locked up.
My hardest moment was leaving Thailand. There was a girl (some of you who receive the email newsletter may remember B) I was leaving who hadn’t left the bars with me. I don’t know her story due to the dangerous nature of her situation and what my presence meant to her safety, but I know that as of my last night, she was still working, and it broke my heart.
There’s not a whole lot I can do for HER right now, but advocacy is something I can do to stop more girls from ending up in her shoes.
THERE ARE
MORE THAN
30 MILLION SLAVES
IN THE WORLD TODAY,
MORE THAN AT
ANY OTHER POINT
IN HUMAN HISTORY.
I highly recommend this book:
Not for Sale
and the website:
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
Also check out:
International Justice Mission
