DC Stop Child Trafficking Walk this Saturday

Hi Friends,

I am making a bit of a personal pitch on child trafficking to try and raise money, but I also wanted to inform individuals on the gravity of the situation. Please read the stats below and donate what you are able. I will also include a website where you can go to find out information about walks going on in your neck of the woods.

Child Trafficking/Donation Information:

Please take a look at my donation page below and consider making a small contribution. This is a huge issue in both this country and abroad. Please take a look at some of that stats below to get an idea of just HOW bad and widespread the problem has become.

300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation. -U.S. Department of Justice

600,000 – 800,000 people are bought and sold across international borders each year; 50% are children, most are female. The majority of these victims are forced into the commercial sex trade. – U.S. Department of State, 2004, Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, D.C.

An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year. The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry. – U.S Department of Justice Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons

An estimated 2.5 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry – UNICEF

Investigators and researchers estimate the average predator in the U.S. can make more than $200,000 a year off one young girl. – NBC Report by Teri Williams

I greatly appreciate your support and please spread the word and let me know if you would like to walk!

You can donate at: http://sctnow.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&eventID=556&participantID=1197

Thanks,
Shelley

Information on walks nationwide:

http://sctnow.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.eventList