People are mainly trafficked and enslaved as sex workers but also as forced labourers, child brides and as soldiers. This is fact.

Of the 600-800’000 people smuggled over international borders annually, 75% are used for sex trafficking. So we here at ‘STOP’ thought, wow Nelly, not while we’re alive!

Being trafficked to work in the sex industry is a catch 22 situation. Here is one of the many scenarios;

• You are poor and uneducated.
• The only commodity your family has left to sell for food is…you.
• You are enslaved and forced to work as a prostitute, but it is better than dying of hunger. Besides, they’ll probably kill me if I try escape.
• You can’t cope with being a prostitute, but luckily there are ample substances available to help you handle the barrage of customers you are forced to sleep with everyday.
• You start using the little money you receive to support your ever increasing drug habit.
• You want out… but now you have no money… you already spent it on drugs. So you keep working to make MORE money.
• In other words, finding yourself between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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