But it is its contents and theme that I actually want to discuss. I have supported Tiny Hands International for about 3 years now. For those of you who don't know what Tiny Hands is, it is a Christian organization with the goal to use a country's own resources to prevent the sex slave trade. The reason for this is that if a populace has a personal stake in and control over the smuggling of underage girls over their borders, there are more likely to be more interested and more involved. Tiny Hands does a lot of awareness promotion, both in the areas with high risk for girls to be taken in in lower risk areas.
I keep saying countries. What comes to mind when I think of countries who are involved with sex slavery, I tend to think of third world countries and regions like Thailand, Cambodia, the Balkans, some Eastern Europe countries (especially with the sale of Russian wives), and poorer African countries who are looking for a way to increase their revenue. And to an extent, all of these countries are involved. But what is most surprising, least known, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for these and any future girls kidnapped by these monsters, is that not a single country in this world is completely free of it. The United States is horribly involved in the sex slave trade, and actually just slave trade in general. There are at least 27 million people who are being used and traded and abused because they are slaves in the modern world. What kind of fucking modern world is this?
Human trafficking is cruel, inhumane, and downright stupid. And yet nobody seems to know about it! Nobody seems to know or care about the 27 million SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND MOTHERS AND FATHERS that have been torn apart, raped, beaten, subject to humiliation, and denied the basic rights that we often take for granted. And then the Secretary of State of the United States of America goes and publishes the ANNUAL REPORT that grades nations on how well they've enforced the trafficking laws. A glorified report card that cuts the allowance of the country who gets a C or lower. All from "Mother England and Uncle Sam" both of whom failed themselves but then tweaked the criteria in their favor, just so they could stay in power. Filthy cheats.
So yes. This stuff actually happens. And yes. You should probably care about it because the people who don't are either ignorant morons or arrogant bastards.
Tiny Hands isn't the only organization involved. There are groups of people devoted to the repudiation of sexcations: a vacation where one goes just to have sex with girls in some country where prostitution is legal. There are organizations to buy girls out, to get local police involved, to get the population involved. PLEASE! Even if you are not remotely interested (which I think by the end of this post it's safe to say that you would fall into the category of arrogant bastard), at least look at some of the websites where people with much more knowledge, experience, and opportunity than I talk about what we can do to help spread the word, alarm, and disgust at the degree of human trafficking in our 'civilized' society.
Now go out there and do something about it!
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
http://www.polarisproject.org/
http://www.catwinternational.org/
http://humantrafficking.org/
https://thesoldproject.com/
