Final Project- Melissa Malia

My final project is about human trafficking.  Slavery ended 150 years ago, as what we thought. Human trafficking is just that... Slavery.  It is the act where women and children are being forced to be with older men for money. I do not see how these men do not see that some girls are so little. Human trafficking is the most hidden crime in the US. 56% of the trafficked is children in the US. 800,000 people in the US are being trafficked in the US each year. 46% of the world is being forced into prostitution.
        

One main reason as to why young girls and children are part of the human trafficking business is because the men behind them, known as their pimps, will seriously hurt them. Even if they try to get out. Many of these young girls are not even close to 16, let alone being close to 18.
One of the movies that i loved, but when it came out, i didnt think much of it, was Taken. In 2008, the movie Taken came out, it is about human trafficking. It is about a young woman who travels to another country with her best friend. When in the country, they find a young man who helps them get to their hotel. The girls friend thinks hes cute, so when he invites them to a party she goes. But the daughter of the man stays at the hotel. After a while, she sees three man in the room next to hers. She calls her father to tell her about the men, he then tells her, four words that no parent wants to tell their child. They will take you. He listens to them take his daughter, and he promises them that he will find her. The whole movie is about him trying to find his trafficked daughter. He finally finds her.

Rachel Lloyd, a survior, author, and founder of GEMS tells her story through her meminor. She says is winter of 1989 she tried a few attempts to end her life, one of the times she downed a bottle of wine, and a various of her mothers pills. Her mother found her in the bathroom, after she came home from a trip from France.Lloyd said that her attempts meant nothing. She went on with her life, and she went on to meet an adult male that she thought was good for her. She stated that she would rather use shoplifting and dodgy credit credits then stand and be a waitress for 18 hours a day. After long days of Rachel doing what she thought was right, she was being raped by the adult men that she hung out with. Her doctor told her that before she could turn 16, she could be dead, pregnant, or in jail. Or all three.

She moved to New York City in august of 1997 from Germany. She was scared driving around as what she called “Serial killers paradise.”  Dumpsters, the absence of the streetlights, no one around for miles to hear you scream”, I know im scared too hearing those words!

At just 23 years old, in 1998, Rachel Llyod found the girls educational and mentoring services. Also know as GEMS. One of the stories she tells in the beginning of her memoir, Girls like us. Is about when she gets a call from a foster care agency. All she knows is that a fourteen year old and her name was Danielle,was picked up from the streets. She goes to the foster care agency to talk to this young girl. At first the girl doesn’t want to talk to Rachel, till Rachel opens up about her past. At that point the two have something in common, Rachel then finds out that the girl that she thought was only fourteen years old, was only 11. The young girl goes on to tell Rachel that she has a boyfriend who is twenty-nine years old. He gives her all types of presents and such as her heart necklace that was around her neck. Danielle told Rachel about all the hotels that she visited with all the men that she was with. Just reading about this story hurt, because this happened in June of 2007, she was born in 1995. We are the same age.  To think none of the men that this girl was with, noticed. Its hard-breaking. 

We may not know when it is happening, or where. But we need to have some awareness of this crime. Women and children are not a profit. They are a a human-being that deserves the world. If you know of anyone that you think is being trafficked call the toll-free number of National Human Trafficking Resource center at 1-888-3737-888! 

 "Flight Attendants Are First Line of Defense Against Human Trafficking." VOA. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2016.

"Join Innocents at Risk for Holiday Cheer At Burberry in City Center!" Innocents at Risk. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2016.

Lloyd, Rachel. Girls like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. Print.

Liam.MCLAUGHLIN. "United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime." What Is Human Trafficking? N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2016. 

Here is the video i did on youtube :

https://youtu.be/zp7GMSWc1Ok