The first step towards action is awareness. Once people hear about the continuation of slavery, in a free country, they have two options, either to ignore the facts and pretend it's not happening. Or, to take action, raise awareness, and support missions to end it. Here are some facts that will astonish even the most hard hearted of persons.
•There are more then 30 millions people still in slavery today
• The Federal Government estimates 14,500 to 17,500 are trafficked into the U.S. each year to be used as staves
•Between one-hundred thousand and three-hundred thousand children in the US are at risk for sex trafficking each year.
• In the US, as many as 2.8 million children live on the streets, a third of whom are lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.
Though there are only a few of these facts listed here, the following websites carry an even more enormous amount of information. Now that awareness has been given the next step it action. What can you do now? Well, for starters there is a race coming up in Spokane, Washington, titled Bloomsday. For this race, Worldrelief.org is sponsoring teams to run in order to raise money to ending sex trafficking in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. To take action go to World Relief and click on 'Make a Donation' and help support at least one team that is wanting to make an impact in order to stop slavery.
Have a good day.
Links for more reading.
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
http://www.gchope.org/human-slavery-statistics.html
http://www.freetheslaves.net/
http://worldrelief.org/cbcshortshorts
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