exploitation
Last updated by delfinkay on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 19:02.
Minga is a youth-run organization dedicated to ending the global sex trade of children. Since it was founded in 2006 by then 14-year old Katie Simon, it has grown into a non-profit organization that involves dozens of youth in its innovative awareness and fundraising campaigns. Minga has raised over $32,000 to build and support a rehabilitation center in the Philippines for recovering girl prostitutes ages 9-18.
Last updated by Cheryl Perera on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 13:59.
It is often assumed that the world has not seen slavery since African slavery was abolished. Yet in today’s world, 2 million boys and girls are enslaved in the child sex industry—raped for pay, sold into prostitution, trafficked across borders, and bought as sexual souvenirs by tourists. The average age of these children is 13, however, there have been reports of children as young as 5…months. I was awakened to this fact when I was 16.
Last updated by BRICK Winner on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 10:31.
In 2000, Kelly Hill won a BRICK Award for establishing Sisters Offering Support, an organization in Honolulu, HI. Kelly helps women and teens to escape commercial sexual exploitation through a crisis hotline, peer-counseling and life-skills education. Kelly’s legislative initiatives resulted in two bills being passed into state law that provide support and options for victims of the sex industry.
