Operation Underground Railroad

Child sex trafficking. It’s a practice that universally abhorred. Yet it’s a problem that isn’t going away. Human traffickers enslave 24.9 million victims worldwide, according to the ILO.

One organization that is fighting child sex trafficking is Operation Underground Railroad. In the past three years, OUR has rescued 745 victims and assisted in the arrests of more than 365 traffickers around the world. By rescue, I mean they have ex-special forces coordinate operations with local enforcement, and they travel around the world to extract children caught up in these circumstances. Today, I donated to OUR.

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