Did You Know?

Did you know....

Officials estimate 14,000 to 17,000 people have been brought to the United States with the promise of jobs, only to be intimidated, held against their will and forced into prostitution or debt bondage.

North Carolina has become one of the top states for human trafficking.

The U.N. Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking estimated last year that annual profits from trafficked, forced labor is around $31.6 billion. Some experts say it is now the second-largest illicit business in the world after drugs.

Human trafficking impacts a variety of people in a myriad of ways: A father of two from Nepal who thought he was going to America wound up in Iraq, forced to work at a U.S. airbase. A 14-year-old Ugandan girl kidnapped by rebels spent nearly eight years in captivity as a sex slave and human shield. And a young Venezuelan woman lured to New York by the man she loved wound up in a brothel his family was running.

I can tell you I did not know. I did not know that Charlotte has had several brothel busts in the last few years or that some of the migrant workers working in and around NC might be here against their will.

I can also tell you that I did not know that I could make a difference in any of this...

Until recently that is. Now that I know, I can make a difference...

I can pray, for this fight is rooted in the depths of evil and is not against flesh and blood, but the evil ruler of this world. (Ephesians 6:12)

I can support great organizations such as Run 4 Revolution. (And I am so not a runner!)

I can spread the word to others that slavery exists and is rampant in our modern society.



So now you know and now you too can make a difference....



(The first words highlighted in each fact is the link to the specific site from which the information came.)