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‘Girls who receive an education are more empowered, better prepared to protect themselves against violence, abuse, exploitation, trafficking and less vulnerable to disease’
United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative
Girls, Girls, Girls
No one knows how many girls and women are trafficked around the world but it is certainly hundreds of thousands. Boys and men are also trafficked for things like sexual exploitation, street crime and labour, but the fact is girls and women are statistically more likely to become the victims of trafficking.
Human trafficking is to be recruited, deceived and forced to work in places like factories, farms, private houses, or brothels
Education ... a ticket to freedom?
EDUCATION… A TICKET TO FREEDOM?
Around the world girls are less likely to go to school and more likely to be literate then their brothers. Less education and training means girls have fewer opportunities to get a job when they are older. This means they are more vulnerable to being trafficked.
The lack of toilets for girls at many schools is often a large contributor to girls being absent or dropping out of education altogether. A 2010 Unicef report states
“While affecting all school-aged children, inadequate sanitation facilities hits girls the hardest, pushing many out of the classroom for lack of privacy and dignity. In some cases girls put up with these deplorable conditions only to leave when they begin to menstruate”.
This is why Freedom Ticket for Life links a girl’s education to training, jobs, and lessons on how to migrate so they DON’T fall prey to the lies of traffickers.
HOW TO DO IT?
Well, that’s simple. Get sponsored and raise money to support 4 projects in trafficking hot-spots by:
Run for Freedom: You can run, walk, jog or racing around on wheels. It can be a kilometre, 5km, or a marathon, a relay, a race or a walk around your local park. You can do it on your own, in a group or advertise to your whole town- we don’t care how you do it; we just want you to do!
Red Light Run: Run through the red light district where you live, either around your city or town, or run from one red light district to another. Anti-trafficking campaigners Duncan Parker, Mark Rowland and Phil Lane set out on a Red Light Run and ran 5 marathons in 6 days. Find out more …
Run for the Loo: We have a number of fun Loo themed events you can do to raise money, Pay to Pee, Toilet Humour, and Quizzed on your Toilet Habits- intrigued?
