Love146
"Sometimes, I would just cry. I couldn't bear it anymore. I would just cry. Sometimes, I just wanted to be alone."
Imagine...
You are sold to a man that you do not know.
Then he beats and rapes you repeatedly until you agree to be his prostitute.
Then your name is replaced with a number.
Tonight you have several "clients".
Tomorrow you turn 8 years old.
She was 8 when she was sold to the brothel.
She draws a picture of being abused.
IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Love146 works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through prevention and aftercare.
Love146 protects children by developing and sustaining targeted prevention projects in high risk communities.
Love 146 defends the rights of the vulnerable through advocacy and effective action.
Love146 restores hope to survivors through training aftercare workers, multiplying safehomes, and providing therapy, s sense of family and space to thrive.
Love146 empowers survivors through education and viable employment opportunities - equipping them to transition back into communities.
Love protects.
Love defends.
Love restores.
Love empowers.
What is Child Trafficking?
Child trafficking is when children are recruited through force, deception or kidnapping, and transported within their country or across borders in order for them to be exploited. More countries in the world are involved - they may be a source of trafficked children, a place where they pass through, or a destination for these children.
Children who are desperately poor are especially at risk of child trafficking. Trafficked children may be exploited by being used in prostitution or pornography. They may be use as child labor, for domestic, factory or agricultural work, or begging. In some countries, they are forced to risk their lives as child soldiers. Some action is being taken to directly address trafficking by governments and non-profit organizations, but more must be done.
Basic Statistics on Human Trafficking
Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation.
It is estimated that at least 27 million people are currently enslaved around the world; many have been enslaved through being trafficked.
Approximately 800,000 people annually are trafficked across national borders. Around 80 percent of these victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The majority of females are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation.
(2007 Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. State Department)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) now believes that the number of children trafficked each year is around 1.2 million.
(2006)
That's two children per minute trafficked for sexual exploitation/slavery.
45,000-50,000 persons are trafficked into the U.S. each year; 15,000 of them are children.
(ECPAT-USA)
The U.N. and other experts estimate the total market value of illicit human trafficking at $32 billion.
(UNODC)
These numbers make trafficking in persons the second most lucrative crime in the world, second only to the sale of drugs.
(Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006)
About $28 billion of this is generated from commercial sexual exploitation.
(International Labor Organization)
Love146 works to abolish child sex slavery and exploitation through the following ways:
Restore & Empower: Training aftercare workers, multiplying safehomes, and providing therapy, a sense of family and space to thrive. Also, by providing education and viable employment opportunities; survivors are equipped to transition back into communities.
Protect & Defend: Protecting children by developing and sustaining targeted prevention projects in high risk communities while defending the rights of the vulnerable through advocacy, awareness raising and effective action.