We have just begun our journey in organizing Atlanta's Inagural SCTNow WALK to be held in October 2010, in conjunction with the global walk with the SCTNow headquarters group in NYC, as well as many other cities worldwide.
REGISTER at www.sctnow.org for Georgia's first Stop Child Trafficking WALK to be held on Saturday, October 9, 2010. It will be a family fun, child-friendly event.
We hope you decide to come along beside us for the walk in October, as well as help us to bring awareness to our community that this is a real issue in our very own city.
Child Trafficking is the recruitment, smuggling, transporting, harboring, buying or selling of a child through force, threats, fraud, deception, or coercion for the purposes of exploitation, prostitution, pornography, migrant work, sweat shops, domestic servitude, forced labor, bondage, peonage or involuntary servitude.
Child trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims. Men, women and children are all victims but, the most vulnerable groups, those with limited rights or protections, have been the hardest hit… especially children.
Trafficking children into the sex industry is done because there is a demand. Predators seek out vulnerable victims and lure them under false pretenses into situations they cannot escape from. No matter the reason, children have become sexual commodities to be bought and sold for the pleasure of exploiters. These children are scarred for life and need help – our help.
Have you been wanting to get involved and help do something to help stop child trafficking, but didn't know quite how to get involved? Join us on October 9, 2010 (8... Learn more
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