What you can do

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Pardon my french, but je dois fort sentiment de mon sujet.

Things we can do

Donate to Organization who help victims

Tell local authorities if you think someone is a victim

Be safe about who you talk to

Carry a cellphone

Travel in a group of friends

Why Human Trafficking Happens

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Human Trafficking. The very word sends a chill down your spine, it keeps people awake at night, wondering where their children are, and how they are.

Human Trafficking is the epitome of human greed, solely for one or two peoples gain, while hurting another being. The victims are never the same, no matter what happens to them. They are lied to, hurt, among other unforgivable crimes. These people are trafficked, with limited contact with the outside world, moved frequently to keep from them getting comfortable.

Reasons why this happens;

1. Immigrants offer cheap labor, especially if they don’t speak the language.

2. Women and young women can be forced into prostitution, which is a very profitable trade.

3. There is very limited resources to discover human trafficking rings, they use the Deep Web, where google cannot even reach, to organize their crime.

Without human trafficking, the world could have:

A: More sleep

B: Less Violence

C: Fair Labor

D: Less Sexual Violence

People, everywhere need to know about this, raise awareness so we can fight the crime that ruins 14,500 to 17,500 lives each year in the US. (Source)

Human Trafficking Case Study

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Nasreen
At the age of 15 Nasreen’s family sent her to live with her uncle in New York after experiencing severe financial troubles at home in Central Asia.   Before she arrived, her uncle promised her that he would register her for school and she would work for him part-time in his corner store. But when she arrived she was put straight to work. Nasreen was forced to do domestic work in her uncle’s home all day, and he made her work as the cashier in his store until late every night. He never offered to pay her for her work and he insisted that she was selfish to want to continue her education.

Nasreen lived like this for two years, working long hours and experiencing constant verbal abuse from her uncle. Whenever Nasreen asked when she would be allowed to go to school, her uncle punished her by preventing her from speaking with her family back in her home country. One day, Nasreen decided she could not take it anymore and ran away.

Nasreen sought out services from a local homeless youth organization after meeting some runaway youth at the piers. She met with a case manager and stayed in the youth shelter for 30 days. During that time she also made connections within the Muslim community and a family decided to take her in. Her case manager continued to work with Nasreen to help her adapt to the cultural, religious, and lifestyle changes of living in New York. Her English improved significantly and she recently completed her high school education, winning awards along the way. Nasreen has been able to re-connect with her family and hopes to visit them soon. In the meantime, she is attending college with aspirations towards becoming a nurse.

-(NYC.gov)

Human Trafficking; The Irreversible Crime

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hu·man traf·fick·ing
noun
  1. the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.
    “she is a victim of human trafficking”
    Human Trafficking hurts lives, damages them forever. I created this blog to hopefully educate someone, or some people about the terrors of what happens to the victims. Then they hopefully educate other people, and then word gets around and we end this hideous insult to human kind and prevent this from happening to someone else. This blog is made for a school project, called NOVA prize, we raised $290 dollars  to go to an organization which is helping our cause.
    This cause cannot wait, people who traffic aren’t going to stop, especially since there is  $9.5 billion to make yearly in the United States (thecoveringhouse.org). Approximately 300,000 children are at risk of being prostituted in the United States. (U.S. Department of Justice) 

    A pimp can make $150,000-$200,000 per child each year and the average pimp has 4 to 6 girls.  (U.S. Justice Department, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) One in three teens on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home. (National Runaway Hotline)