Human Trafficking is the antithesis to the core nature of humanity: every individual has infinite worth and deserves to be treated with the utmost respect. We are all equal.
Men, women, and children are sold into horrifying situations where their humanity is bartered for money and their self-dignity torn apart.
Victims of trafficking often struggle to feel like their life matters due to the systemic and degrading exploitation they are subjected to.
The Dressember Foundation recently posted the story of a young female victim who is called “E”.
E grew up in Central America and had the responsibility to care for her orphaned siblings. At only 14 years old, E made the big decision to leave her siblings and find work in the nearby big city. She found work with a rich family but soon discovered the hard way that her employers were deep into organized crime.
Her employers became her captors. They trafficked in drugs, in weapons, and also in humans. E was subjected to violence and witnessed even more.
The father of this crime family was horrid. He became her rapist.
He told her that E belonged to him. That E was nothing more than property to be sexually exploited.
People aren’t property.
But E was treated as such. She was forced into prostitution and sent to the United States by her captors to work.
It was torturous. E spent years scared for her life and alone away from everything she knew. There came a point where E decided that this kind of life wasn’t worth living.
One day, E was able to escape and found refuge at a safehome. But her painful memories of being dehumanized by her traffickers followed her.
E attempted suicide.
Survivors of human trafficking, like E, are in desperate need of support when transitioning out of their former life of exploitation. Many, if not all, don’t have the support and resources to help themselves emotionally, physically, and legally.
That’s where you come in.
You can give direct aid to girls and boys by donating today.
The most immediate gift you can give a survivor to help them emotionally is an aftercare kit. Aftercare kits are made with the intent to help the survivor feel safe, loved, and cared for. Please contribute to this beginning step of survivor rehabilitation by giving $20.
Visit DressForFreedom’s team advocacy page, Freezing Sisters, to give the gift of freedom and dignity today.
Let’s help survivors, like E, rediscover the infinite worth of their life again.