Today we are going to start at the beginning. Let's define trafficking...
Trafficking is...to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold, and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labor, domestic servitude.
Trafficking is...where family members and friends deceive parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organized international trafficking rings.
Trafficking is...growing. 2-4 million men, women, and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to 5 jumbo jets everyday. A trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca-Cola.
Trafficking is...where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture, and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. A person can be sold and trafficked many times.
(taken from stopthetraffik.org)
I have a book on hold at the library about trafficking. Hopefully next week I'll have some more info. for you. I have been thinking about IJM's prayer gathering again this year, wishing I could go. I don't know if it is going to work out this year though. But if I do I'd need someone to join me...any takers? ; )
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Wow...I hadn't heard the statistics posed like this before: "More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to 5 jumbo jets everyday. A trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca-Cola." SCARY.
When is the prayer gathering for IJM? I would be very interested in going. Oh. and there's a teeny tiny possibility I may be in the springs area the week of your b.day AND...go watch the video on my blog. You will freaking love it.
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