Recently, human trafficking has been becoming more talked about. With some research, I wanted to share some facts. Tim Ballard is the founder of Operation Underground Railroad which is a non profit organization focused on rescuing children from slavery. If you don’t know anything about them, I highly recommend it. There’s a movie that’s called “Operation Toussaint” that shows the behind the scenes of this organization and talks about how it started.
It’s a very taboo subject that not a lot of people talk about. People don’t want to talk about kids being raped. It’s a disgusting thought. It’s awful, but it’s our reality. It’s terrible to think about these kids being held against their will, but it’s time for us to wake up and accept that it’s happening and take action. There are petitions to sign against traffickers that didn’t serve time or didn’t serve as long as they should have. There’s places to donate to keep organizations like this funded. Do your research and look into what companies you’re supporting and what kind of factories are the supplies being made in. Stop supporting sweatshops. Stop supporting child labor.
Now here’s some facts.
The USA creates the demand as the HIGHEST producer and consumer of child pornography. There are roughly 20 to 40 million slaves in the world today. 10 million of them are children. In the 18th century alone, there was around 8 to 9 million slaves imported to the US. Every 30 seconds a child is sold in slavery. For sex, for labor, and for organ harvesting. Slavery is the fastest growing criminal enterprise. Slavery generates three times the revenues of the NFL. THREE TIMES. During the quarantine, the cases have only gone up. Now, these statistics don’t include all the cases that have gone undetected.
Here are some places you can donate or sign petitions or do more research for yourself.
linkin.bio/ourrescue
polarisproject.org
love146.org
freetheslaves.net
Some things you can do at home. Talk to your kids about who they talk to. I know it’s an uncomfortable topic, but spreading awareness starts with you. Trust me, I would love to just pretend that this isn’t an issue and not talk about it, but that’s not the reality. This is a growing problem.
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