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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