BCF: Child Sex-Trafficking Awareness
Open your eyes to the atrocity taking place around you...
posted over 11 years ago
What would you do if your brother, sister, niece, or nephew was taken from you and forced into child prostitution? Would you idly sit by and go about your day-to-day life? Or would you take action?
Come on out to the Child Sex-Trafficking Event I am co-hosting with Ann Apugo! Come and be informed and put an end to this atrocity that is taking place around us!
Come on out to the Child Sex-Trafficking Event I am co-hosting with Ann Apugo! Come and be informed and put an end to this atrocity that is taking place around us!
Purpose: To raise awareness of child sex-trafficking on the global, national, and local (Baltimore, MD) level.
When: April 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM and 8:30 PM
Where: At the Breezeway (at 12:00 PM) and LH 5 (at 8:30 PM)
In the Breezeway during free hour, we will be providing information of the extent and pervasiveness of sex trafficking. In addition, we will be showing iHeart Revolution, a documentary on social injustices at 8:30 PM in LH 5 (Engineering Building).
When: April 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM and 8:30 PM
Where: At the Breezeway (at 12:00 PM) and LH 5 (at 8:30 PM)
In the Breezeway during free hour, we will be providing information of the extent and pervasiveness of sex trafficking. In addition, we will be showing iHeart Revolution, a documentary on social injustices at 8:30 PM in LH 5 (Engineering Building).
You will be very surprised at how close by child sex trafficking occurs. According to Dennene Yates from Safe House of Hope, a 3 year old girl from Baltimore was sold into child prostitution by her mother, who used the money to purchase drugs.
Quick Facts:
*Average age of child prostitution in the United States is 13 years old [DCF CT]
* In Thailand, you could buy a child for sex with $2.00 (U.S) dollars
[UC Davis]
*Every year, approximately 100,000 to as much as 300,000 children in the United States, are exploited in sex trafficking [Baltimore Sun]
