my life's work.

In case you don't know, I have one overarching goal: to end sex trafficking. I don't know how yet, but I plan on dedicating my life to coming up with a social entrepreneurship-type solution to this problem:

"An estimated 2 million women and children are held in sexual servitude throughout the world, and between 800,000 and 900,000 are trafficked across international borders for the purposes of sexual exploitation each year."

Is that not ridiculous?

The issue is that it's a very complex problem. There's the specific woman or child, whoever is trafficking them, the local law enforcement, the government, and then the root of the problem: the demand. Somehow all of these factors need to be taken into account.

So I'm going to throw a bunch of web sites at you now for your perusal. Read them and join the revolution. I can't do it by myself.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Captive Daughters
Progeny
Amnesty International: Human Trafficking
Stop Demand

If you only read one thing, read the Captive Diaries, the blog from Captive Daughters.

Stand up. A guy I really like once said, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few."

Peace,
Sam