Blog post by Angela B., Team Moldova 2011
Moldova has been called the “engine of the sex industry” and unfortunately children are usually used as the fuel for this “engine”. Most often orphans are the ones targeted by sex traffickers and the U.S State Department has reported a “pattern of trafficking” involving orphans in Moldova. The girls at risk are those who have to leave the orphanages at 16 or 17. They are given a little bit of money and a bus ticket. (more…)
Blog posted by Amber Cassady
Ponder back to some of your favorite childhood activities. For me, I think one of my fun memories was on a hot summer days, putting the sprinkler under the trampoline and jumping to my heart’s content as the cool water splashed up through the little holes in the trampoline. My little brother and I would laugh for hours doing this until we couldn’t jump anymore. Imagine having no fond memories of your childhood like these. How would your life look differently if you never had the chance to run and play, as children should? What if instead of reminiscing about the fun days of hide and seek and playing “house,” all you had were nightmares of abuse and being forced to have sex with men you did not even know? (more…)
