Some Numbers...

• The U.S Government estimates that nearly 30,000,000 people worldwide are suffering from human trafficking
• Trafficking for labor & sexual exploitation is probably the second most profitable activity in the world for organized crime
• Youth who are trafficked come from urban, suburban and rural areas
• The Ohio Trafficking Commission Report 2010 says that there are nearly 2,000 victims from Ohio
• Many of the victims are runaways and the vast majority come from homes where they were already suffering from abuse
• Toledo, Ohio has been cited by the FBI and the NCMEC as a top U.S. recruitment city for trafficking children

• Despite an estimated prevalence of 100,000 to 150,00010 slaves in the U.S., fewer than 1,000 victims have been assisted through the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement since 2001, when services for trafficking victims were first made available

These numbers are unacceptable. Just looking at them makes me raging mad! The problem is that so few people know what a huge problem this is IN OHIO! It's not just Asian women and girls being taken to China or Indonesia, but women and children in the United States and in OHIO!

The Daughter Project is the only faith-based shelter for girls that escape sex trafficking in Toledo, Ohio. I hope that you will support my project by looking into what YOU can do to help this organization or anything else you can do to help stop human sex trafficking.