Twenty. Seven. Million.

Are you aware that now...at this moment in time...we have more people in slavery than we ever had before? Most people think slavery ended more than a century ago. Let me just give you some facts: (taken from enditmovment.com) *there are 27 million people in modern day slavery right now *It costs $90 dollars or less to BUY A HUMAN BEING. 90 dollars. *This is a 32 BILLION dollar industry every year. Just to clue you in on how much that is...that's an underground network who's annual revenue is bigger than google. *As many at 17,500 people are trafficked into the UNITED STATES every year...and the average age of these people is 14 years old. *80% of people trafficked are women. It's estimated that 5,000 women and girls are trafficked and raped for profit every year in Atlanta, Georgia alone, and this city is among the 14 most trafficked cities in the US. There are 13 more cities where slavery is present too. *There are roughly 200,000 slaves working in America right now, with more being trafficked every day. *50% of these are children. Being taken off the streets. Losing their childhood. And this next fact brought tears streaming down my face. My heart is broken. Ruined. Hurting. This next sentence, made everything a lot more relate-able. "In certain sex trafficking networks, women and girls commonly "serve" as many as four men per hour (every 15 minutes), totaling 48 men in a given 12 hour day." (polarisproject.org) Every. Fifteen. Minutes. Okay...I work at Great Clips. Great Clips is known for fast haircuts, to save the customer time in their busy schedule. My average haircut time is between 13 and 15 minutes. In the time it takes me to do one haircut at work, a girl forced into sex trafficking is raped. And up to 48 times a day. FOURTY EIGHT. I do between 20 and 25 haircuts a day. This is unacceptable. How is this happening? How are we not hearing about this on the news? Talking about it? Let's make people aware of this. Let's come behind groups that are already working to save people from modern day slavery. I'm disgusted by these facts. And this isn't the first time this has been on my heart. I remember doing a blog a few years ago, just broken for what I heard. I had no idea it was to this extent. This is out of control. Go to enditmovement.com and take a pledge to shine a light on slavery.