4 Ways You Can Help Stop Human Trafficking in Your Travels

Alyssa Hollingsworth | June 8, 2016

2. Be Savvy

Human trafficking exists. The most reliable way you can help stop it is by not becoming a part of it.

Risks start to rise if you are traveling alone, if you are a woman, and if you are young. My cousin knows this firsthand.

She was 22 at the time, traveling alone out of South Africa. After she bought some soccer souvenirs from the gift shop at the airport, she sat down to wait for her flight. A man, wearing a sweat suit and a few gold medals, a came over and started trying to talk to her. He had seen her buy the soccer things and claimed to be a soccer player himself.

Eventually, he tried to get her full name so that he could friend her on Facebook, and when that didn’t work he asked her to come with him somewhere else. She kept telling him no, politely but firmly, and he kept insisting, getting more frustrated with her as she refused to comply. He told her that in Africa they were friends now, so it was acceptable for her to go with him.

After this went on for a while, my cousin noticed a group of men walking towards her, dressed in expensive suits. The man talking to her subtly shook his head at the approaching fellows, and they changed direction to walk the other way.

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