Why does your issue matter?
Sex trafficking is something important to know because not everyone knows what the meaning of ‘’Sex Trafficking’’ is. I find it a very important topic to learn more about, it teaches us as people to learn how to value our existence because not everyone lives in a paradise. Sex Trafficking is something serious that happens all over the world and it's something that isn’t mention much in the ‘’News’’ as i think it should be more mention because people should be more aware that we are not safe as we think we are. ‘’At least 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sexual servitude, forced labor and bonded labor.’’ As Equality Now mentions that adults and children are forced to labor worldwide. ‘’They forced me to sleep with as many as 50 customers a day. I had to give [the pimp] all my money. If I did not [earn a set amount] they punished me by removing my clothes and beating me with a stick until I fainted, electrocuting me, cutting me.’’ Kolab, Sex trafficking survivor from Cambodia. Women, children, and men contribute to Sex Trafficking and having no such thing called ‘’freedom’’. Suffering and going through family separation also poverty influences trafficking in order to make quick money maybe for themselves or family to support. I find this a very important topic because people have the rights to be informed of what’s going on globally and to be aware that it can happen to anyone and any part of this world.
What do you hope to accomplish through this project?
What I hope to accomplish for this project is finishing my topic in time. But not just that, I hope that people end up understanding the real meaning of Sex Trafficking. To change people's point of view and how we could do a difference even if were millions of miles away or in different countries. We could all make a big change by informing each other of what's going around the world. I hope to change people's perspectives in Sex Trafficking that it's not only a choice but also being forced. I hope people get to see the good and bad in this world. I want people to think differently as in good or bad but to understand the struggle that people and children have to go through for a living. It’s important to be informed about this because trafficking can do a huge damage to adults and children it can cause emotional trauma, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociation. They are at greater risk of contracting sexually transmissible infections, including HIV/AIDS. Many become pregnant and are forced to undergo often unsafe abortions. It also contributes to the innocent families who may have no idea where their children or family members are. I hope this project also changes my perspective. Also helps me and my partners to understand what sex trafficking really is which we hope to make a difference some day.