Thursday, February 5, 2009

Help STOP Child Slavery!

* In some cases a mere $100 can save a child from slavery. Did you know? * Today 27 million people worldwide are slaves, over 8 million of them are children, with the largest numbers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. * 1.8 million of these children are forced into prostitution or pornography, with the largest numbers in India, Brazil, Thailand, and the Philippines. * Each year 1.2 million more children are forced into slavery. That's over 3,000 per day. * The average age of a girl forced into sexual slavery is 13; girls as young as 5 are sold into sexual slavery and forced to work in brothels. * A girl in a brothel is forced to have sex with as many as 20 customers a night. * Child slaves are often forced to work up to 15 hours a day, in prostitution, agriculture, domestic servitude, mines, rice mills, brick kilns, factories, rock quarries, and as soldiers. * In some cases a mere $100 can save a child from slavery.

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