Introduction
I chose the issue of child trafficking and sexual exploitation, because I feel trafficking and slavery encompasses all types of abuse: sexual/physical, mental/psychological, and emotional. When issues so important to me arise, I will fight to resolve them. Trafficked and exploited children go through severe physical and mental trauma on a continuous basis. Being of victim of physical and emotional abuse myself, I cannot imagine what trafficked and exploited children are going through. The way I have interacted with people the last four years have let me become aware of the negative effects that abuse has had on me.Those effects built a brick wall on my socializing and the relationships I need to have in order to go through life. With this project not only will I try to address child trafficking and exploitation, I will also try to break the brick wall that constricts me. Through the FIRE Project, I will try to bring awareness on child trafficking and sexual exploitation to the Little Village community, since its a type of abuse that is unknowingly right in front of us. All the types of abuse invoked in trafficking and exploitation are the same throughout the world. Therefore, my topic addresses ways to help all children. The number of child trafficking and sexual exploitation victims can be largely reduced through the increase and expansion of programs aimed at educating youth about all types of exploitation, as well as the expansion of programs in which youth are allowed to earn money in a respectable manner.