Give them a fighting chance!

Hey Ya'll this is Monica, this is my first time EVER writing a blog so bare with me :)

I never really realized how serious Sex Trafficking was until I had to do research on a well known women's activist Somaly Mam. I read her book The Road of Lost Innocence and it was truly eye opening. Like a lot of people I never really realized this was a problem in our society today. Not only Worldwide but within our own communities. From reading the blog or if you've heard about any of the work we are trying to do and if your interested in the topic at all, I would highly recommend this book. I will be honest it is a bit brutal, Somaly Mam was sold into slavery at the age of 10 then sold by her master to a brothel where she was forced into prostitution. From 13-20 she was raped, beaten and tortured, but she didn't let that stop her. Once she was some what free she made it her duty to seek change. Instead of letting all of the horrible things that had happen to her take over her life she fought to find some peace, to help other girls like her get help. She has saved over 3,000 girls in her home country of Cambodia. Not only does she take part in the rescues she has opened facilities to help the girl cope. She teaches them skills that will help find them work and she councils the girls. The fact that one person has done so much makes you wonder how much change you could do as a individual, well at least that's what it's done for me, that's why when we were given the assignment to do something for the community I knew right away I wanted to do something with sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is the 3rd ranking organized crime in the world. That means not only dirty people taking part in this but also corrupted government, cops. It makes you realize how sick this world really is and because of what? $$$. No child should be robbed of their youth. If Somaly mam made such a huge impact think of what we could do in a group setting. If your interested in this crime, her story check out this website. It is easy to follow and it's highly informational.

http://www.somaly.org/slavery

I hope to see everyone at the training to help volunteer for the Genesis foundation this saturday. Like Molly said, if your not interested in volunteering it's still a great way to learn about Sex Trafficking and it gives us all a chance to help within our own community, that's where it all starts!! (Information within the link below)

http://www.gpseattle.org/ai1ec_event/volunteer-public-awareness-training/?instance_id=7