It is always an adjustment landing in a new country. I have memories of waiting at a small Namibian airport in the middle of nowhere for someone to pick me up, hoping desperately that they were indeed just late. I also remember getting onto a local Costa Rican bus at the airport and suddenly forgetting […]
Break the Silence: Video Clip on How Victims of Human Trafficking Feel in North America
I have watched this haunting clip several times now, and it sparks in me some of the same feelings as I had watching the film TRADE. The scene with all the containers lines up with what I was told in an interview about how women are shipped from impoverished countries to North America. Michelle Brock
A Must-See TED TALK: Sunitha Krishnan Speaks On Rescuing Victims of Sex Trafficking in India
“The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.” -S.Krishnan My brother-in-law recently sent us the link to this fantastic TED talk by Sunitha Krishnan, a woman who passionately fights on behalf of sex trafficking victims in […]