Save Our Children
There has been a lot coming to light recently about the HUGE problem we have with human trafficking and sexual slavery. Human trafficking is a crime that forcefully exploits women, men, and children. According to the UN, human trafficking affects every country in the world, but it’s not talked about enough.
Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation. It’s estimated that internationally there are between 20 million and 40 million people in modern slavery today. #1 lucrative criminal activity in the world
The misconception is oh this happens somewhere else in some far off undeveloped country but this truth is it’s happening here in our country, our cities, our neighborhoods.
Catherine Ann Wilson is the founder and Executive director of StopTraffickingUS.org. As a survivor of the all to common domino effect of early childhood molestation, classroom bullying, all the bad stuff that happens when you’re a runaway by age 12, sex trafficked by 15, teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional relationships and then the long journey of healing, Catherine calls “Surviving after surviving”… Catherine is the master of thriving after trauma. She was earning a six-figure income by her 30’s. Before she was 50, 6 years ago, Catherine started a nonprofit with 3 goals.
September 2019 Catherine’s team created and hosted a 3-day faith-based child abuse prevention conference, bringing in national experts Victor Vieth and Pete Singer from the Zero Abuse project and manifested an epic community educational event.
At the same time, she was nominated as 1 of 20 outstanding women in Maine by the Portland Radio group.
October 2019 She was invited to the Whitehouse to provide input on sex trafficking issues and make recommendations. Then invited back to the Whitehouse again in January 2020 to attend a meeting in honor of the 20th anniversary of the sex trafficking victims protection act, alongside top political leaders President Trump, Senior Vice President Pence and Ivanka Trump.
Catherine is currently creating an educational kit program for faith-based organization to update their policies to keep children and vulnerable adults safe. The end goal has always been to keep all children safe from abuse.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Resources:
Operation Underground Railroad
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
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