Nearly two million children are involved in the commercial sex trade.
There are more slaves around the world today (about 27 million) than in four hundred years of trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Human trafficking brings in an estimated $32 billion a year.
These are just statistics. Soulless, impersonal numbers. But with each one come millions of stories, stories like this, this, and this.
What are you going to do?
That question's sort of haunting me.
That is so awful :'( and heartbreaking!
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Yes. Whoa . . . I understand why it haunts you, Kelsey.
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ReplyDeleteWe could march on the slave traders...
*odd looks*
Well, we could!
Wow... very sad indeed! The question 'what can we do' is troubling- possibly in the best sense, though. Although, it makes me wonder. Are we, still young people-just teens- supposed to feel bad that we cannot at present leave our homes and actually get on the front lines (of this subject and many others of the like, helping the homeless, etc) in a major way, or do we look at this time at home as the time to prepare ourselves for the future, which for some of us (being almost adults) really isn't that far away. True, there's the whole Rebelution thing that is great, but are we supposed to feel really bad because in essence right now we can't do as much as the adults we read about who are dedicating their lives to helping others? How exactly are we supposed to respond- we who are caught between childhood past and adult hood future, but not really here nor there.... if that happens to make any sense. I'll admit it's a feeling and a question one can't really put into words, there's so many facets to it...
ReplyDeleteHannah - Hm. Well. Good luck with that. ;)
ReplyDeleteKrys - I was going to answer that here but I think it's a good excuse for a post. :P
I knew you'd look at me like that. :P
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense.
Kelsey: Hurray! :) I'm looking forwards to whatever thoughts you share, because the topic is definitely one that I want to do the right thing on (meaning, if I'm supposed to get up and go I want to go and not use my being young as an excuse not too) and any help/ideas would be great indeed! :)
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