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Your contribution directly supports SAFE in the Panhandle, funding human trafficking awareness training for law enforcement, first responders, hospitality workers, medical professionals, and more. Awareness is the first step to eradication! SAFE has also founded the Panhandle’s only 24 hour emergency intake center for victims of human trafficking.
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Why give?
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Forced commercial sexual exploitation generates $173 Billion in illegal profits each year
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The average age a girl enters the sex trade is 12-14 years old and 11-13 years old for boys
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Every 2 minutes a child is being prepared for sexual exploitation
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The average victim of sex trafficking is sold between 15-40 times per day
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Sex trafficking is the predominant form of human trafficking in Florida, with technology exacerbating the issue by enabling traffickers to groom and exploit victims online.
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Florida ranks 3rd in the number of reported human trafficking cases.
" Effective awareness and training efforts can lead to the detection of human trafficking cases, build public support for governments and communities to act, and help prevent human trafficking."
-Panama City Police Department
“I spent months in the same hotel. Same clothes. Same person at the desk. How did I go unnoticed?"
-Survivor
"I spent days on end in a hotel with men much older than me, different faces and not once did someone ask if I was okay."
-Survivor
“I came to work every night starting my night in the mirror, covering my bruises with makeup. Did no one question what was or wasn't my choice?"
-Survivor