Who are we helping
Stop Human Trafficking
A percentage of our proceeds will go to Saving Innocence. Human trafficking is the business of stealing freedom for profit. In some cases, traffickers trick, defraud or physically force victims into providing commercial sex. In other cases, victims are lied to, assaulted, threatened or manipulated into working under inhumane, illegal or otherwise unacceptable conditions. It is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to 24.9 million people around the world.
How Saving Innocence works -
Law enforcement has the first point of contact with the child survivor. Saving Innocence is contacted and within 90 minutes a Saving Innocence advocate responds along with Child Welfare and Probation. The child survivor is transported to the hospital. Clothes and food are provided, and the child survivor is taken for a medical exam. Through it all Saving Innocence gives support and encouragement. The Saving Innocence advocate ensures that a safety plan and housing is in place for the child survivor. There is potentially nine months of support with time, love, support and beyond. Saving Innocence also supports the child through testifying against trafficker. Saving Innocences offer Life Skills, Community Connections, Celebrations, and Empowerment Events.
Saving Innocence also offers an extensive advocacy course to become educated in working with commercially sexually-exploited children (CESC).
You can find out more about all of the ways they are helping our youth by going to SavingInnocence.org
- Trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in many forms, including: forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography.
- According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
- There are approximately 20 to 30 million slaves in the world today.
- According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, of which 80% are female and half are children.
- The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-year-old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
- California harbors 3 of the FBI’s 13 highest child sex trafficking areas on the nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
- The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives more calls from Texas than any other state in the US. 15% of those calls are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.
- Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking). It reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year. Of that number, $15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries.
- The International Labour Organization estimates that women and girls represent the largest share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men.
- Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.
(DoSomething.org)