I was reading Glamour Magazine and came across an article on the 2 women that started an organization called GEMS- Girls Educaional and Mentoring Services- to help rescue young girls from the world of prostitution. It completely grabbed me. Visit the website to learn more about what they are about and what they are doing. I was particularly appalled at the realization that though these 12-21 year old girls are participating in an illegal activity, prostitution, they are girls that need help, not incarceration. It's sex trafficking. They are the victims. Check it out.
From the article in Glamour Magazine: Rachel Lloyd, a survivor of the sex trade herself, founded GEMS 10 years ago to help girls understand that what they have with their pimps is not love but exploitation... Lloyd once asked a girl why she stayed with her pimp. "She told me that every evening they'd sit down and eat dinner together, 'just like a family.'"
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