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 One out of ten girls is sold into prostitution in Cambodia. Often a trafficker goes to a remote village where people are very poor and have never heard of trafficking. He tells a mother that he can get a job for her daughter in the city as a housekeeper. He offers the family the girl’s first month’s wages. Normally, Cambodian families are very protective of their daughters, but because the parents are so poor, they agree to let their daughter leave home for work. The trafficker takes the girl to the city and sells her to a brothel. There she is raped, drugged, and sometimes even shocked with electric cattle prods. She is forced to live as a sex-slave.
Friendship with Cambodia works to prevent the trafficking of girls and women. We are funding a dance troupe from an orphanage that travels to rural villages where families don’t know about trafficking. The troupe gives a dance performance and everyone in the village comes to watch. In the middle of the program the dancers perform an educational skit about the perils of trafficking. They hand out educational T-shirts, hats, and posters that continue to warn the community about trafficking.
We are also promoting respect and safety for women through national radio shows and the distribution of brochures and posters. Our partner organization is collaborating with the private sector (such as beer companies, bars, and restaurants) with a goal of zero tolerance toward abuses and sexual harassment of girls and women.
For more information about campaigns to stop human trafficking see:
Not for Sale Campaign - www.notforsalecampaign.org
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