Vietnam is understood for its magnificence, however there’s an unsightly aspect it’s working arduous on to repair
After we consider Vietnam, we have a tendency to think about avenue meals, gorgeous nature and wealthy cultural variety – constructive issues which have attracted hundreds of thousands of vacationers to the nation over the previous few a long time.
However there’s a darkish underbelly right here, one thing that authorities, together with devoted NGOs, are tirelessly engaged on collectively to eradicate – slavery and human trafficking.
Generally traffickers need to take individuals from far-off, as a result of they comprehend it’s tougher for households to go on the lookout for them
In line with founding father of Blue Dragon Kids’s Basis, Michael Brosowski, there are tens of 1000’s of Vietnamese individuals residing in slavery within the area, lots of them having been trafficked to neighbouring Cambodia, China, and Myanmar.
Hanoi-based Blue Dragon, an NGO whose mission is to finish slavery and human trafficking and to offer look after Vietnamese kids and households affected by it, receives requires assist each day from members of the family of people that have been trafficked, together with from individuals who have been trafficked themselves.
Blue Dragon has already rescued 70 individuals this yr from human traffickers, 220 final yr, and greater than 1,300 for the reason that organisation was established in 2003.
As my interview with Michael reveals, probably the most susceptible to human trafficking in Vietnam are individuals from impoverished backgrounds on the lookout for financial alternatives for themselves and their households.
And whereas individuals from a few of Vietnam’s 58 provinces are targetted by traffickers greater than others, trafficking takes place all around the nation, which implies that it’s not unusual for individuals within the north of Vietnam to be trafficked throughout southern borders, and likewise, individuals from the south trafficked throughout northern borders.
Take heed to the episode beneath (beginning at 39’00) during which Michael describes the character of human trafficking and slavery, why some persons are trafficked and others are usually not, and what he and Blue Dragon are doing to infiltrate trafficking networks in secure and sustainable methods.
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