What is the connection between prostitution and trafficking?
The sex industry is the enabling environment of human trafficking. Desperate to support their family, pay off debt, women are easily lured to the fast money that traffickers promise. Example: One of our English students was the sole support of ten members of her family: Her mother and grandmother, her three children, her younger school-age brother, her sister who had been paralyzed in an accident and her husband and their two young children. She needed to take one customer a day in order to support them all. Exhausted, she came to English with a glimmer of hope because of a job offer in Belgium. Bearing all the marks of traffickers we told her of the dangers. She sighed and said, But at least my phone wont ring. We never saw her again.
