Websites
The following links are websites that are helpful in educating about human trafficking and offering assistance or services for victims of trafficking abuse.
Gracehaven: www.gracehavenhouse.org
Not for Sale: www.notforsalecampaign.org
Shared Hope: www.sharedhope.org
Stop Child Trafficking Now: www.sctnow.org
Free International: www.free-international.org
Traffick 911: www.traffick911.org
Trafficking Hope: www.traffickinghope.org
Second Chance Toledo: www.secondchancetoledo.org
Love 146: www.love146.org
Statistics
- Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Child/ human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs.
– U.S. State Department - The global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims.
– UNICEF - As many as 2.8 million children run away each year in the US. Within 48 hours of hitting the streets, one-third of these children are lured or recruited into the underground world of prostitution and pornography.
– The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
