Today an estimated 27 million people worldwide are being exploited and abused through human trafficking, a modern day slave trade that preys on the most vulnerable people and populations.
SAWSO works with various partners in China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Liberia through projects which help communities identify and develop strategies to combat human trafficking.
As many as 1.2 million children are forced into the sex trade every year. It is happening here. An estimated 14,500-17,500 people are trafficked into the United States annually. SAWSO works with various partners in China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Liberia through projects which help communities identify and develop strategies to combat human trafficking. This includes making thousands aware of what strategies traffickers use so people, especially women and children, are not fooled.
Di Noryou is a grandfather who lives with his son and two year old grandson, Nasadu in a remote village on the China/Miramar Boarder. The three males live in the family home alone since the son’s wife went to the market and was trafficked by a dealer who came to the village. This happens a lot to women who go to the market. They are deceived and abducted by the offer of a better life…From another community, a small hamlet of 23 families, 18 women have disappeared over the past three years.
This means that in some hamlets, all of the marriage aged women are gone. The only hope is now to prevent the younger girls from the same fate. Fortunately Di Noryou’s story has a happy ending.
The wife of Di Noryou’s son managed to escape her situation and return home. Now she works, after receiving care and helped in the restoration process, with The Salvation Army’s anti-trafficking programs helping other women avoid her fate and helping to care for those needing restoration.
Your gift of any amount will provide vulnerable communities around the world (Brazil, Mexico, India, Malasia, China, Eastern Europe and the USA) with training in combating trafficking, staff will be funded to set up prevention projects, trafficking victims will be cared for, and local groups will be empowered to collaborate and work together to deal with this issue.
