SA Foundation

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Human slavery is insidious and prevalent. It has been with us through the centuries, only becoming truly socially unacceptable in the last part of the 20th century. Yet today, it still exists and has changed faces to become the enslavement of young women and children in the sex trade industry. It surfaces at an alarming rate in our own neighbourhoods, with unfortunately very little opposition.

This is one of the fastest growing social issues of our times. As recently as the year 2000, there were reports that as many as 300 Million women and children were sexually exploited and trafficked worldwide! In 2002, the United Nations declared that trafficking in human beings was "the fastest growing business of organized crime." In that same year, they estimated that globally, trafficking was annually a "5 to 7 Billion U.S. dollar operation".

The SA Foundation purports that any kind of prostitution IS sexual exploitation.

Internationally, young women and children are often sold by parents or relatives into brothels, and in North America abuse and neglect are frequent components in the histories of young women who end up on the streets. No matter their stories, they deserve an avenue of exit - a solution that brings hope and a future!