A means to an end
Monday, September 21 2009
Rachel Lamb, Asst. Life Editor
The Spectrum (Student's newspaper at the U. at Buffalo)
Girls and women are kept in steel cages in dark back alley slums until eager men are escorted in, pick one out and then give money to have sex with them on tattered cots.
This is reality for over 55,000 young women in Cambodia that are trapped in sexual slavery. It is estimated that 35 percent of those girls are younger than 16 years old.
Vintage On Campus, a student Christian group, is trying to end sex trafficking in Cambodia. They are teaming with Agape International Missions, which has a station in Asia where sex trafficking is most prevalent.
On Sept. 16, VOC held an event in the Student Union to raise awareness and money to help stop human sex trafficking in Cambodia. Members of VOC also rocked on a giant seesaw for one-hour timeslots.
“The seesaw was mainly to catch people’s eyes and have them come over,” said Jay Perillo, VOC’s campus minister. “But we also wanted to get the message across that we were ‘tipping the scales of injustice.’”
Many students milled around the event last Wednesday, where there were plenty of brochures, pamphlets and literature to read about the event. VOC also offered Web sites, like Agape International Mission’s Web site, aim4asia.com, where people can make donations.
VOC also supplied orange bracelets, claiming that orange is the color of freedom. The group encouraged students to wear the color to show that they are a part of finding an end to sex trafficking.
“We need to do whatever we can to stop human trafficking,” Perillo said.
Along with the money raised by the VOC members and their sponsors, Perillo estimates that donations brought in over $1,000. All of the proceeds will go directly to AIM’s site to help rescue young girls who are sex slaves.
According to Perillo, AIM helps those who are enslaved by pulling them out of the alleys, educating them, and giving them food, shelter and safety in its Restoration Center in Cambodia. The program also provides therapy and spiritual guidance to the traumatized victims.
“[AIM] is a great organization and we want to help them in whatever way we can,” Perillo said.
According to its Web site, AIM has helped thousands of people and has opened over 600 churches in Cambodia since its inception in 1988 in California.
AIM also provides financial support, disaster relief, medical supplies and personnel.
The VOC is relatively new to UB. It was started in the spring 2009 semester. Dave Ashby, a UB alumnus and head of the set-up and teardown team, hopes that the VOC will make a difference with the sex trafficking in Cambodia.
“The VOC would like to eventually expand and do mission trips and raise more money,” Ashby said.
Ashby raised money and sat on the seesaw for an hour with a fellow member of the VOC.
“I wish I could have raised more, but I’m glad that I was able to help,” he said.
VOC would like to put together more events to help end sex trafficking not only in Cambodia, but also all over the world.
“I hope that VOC will expand over the next few years so that we can have more support on campus and so that we can raise more money for all the people that we want to help,” Ashby said.
This is reality for over 55,000 young women in Cambodia that are trapped in sexual slavery. It is estimated that 35 percent of those girls are younger than 16 years old.
Vintage On Campus, a student Christian group, is trying to end sex trafficking in Cambodia. They are teaming with Agape International Missions, which has a station in Asia where sex trafficking is most prevalent.
On Sept. 16, VOC held an event in the Student Union to raise awareness and money to help stop human sex trafficking in Cambodia. Members of VOC also rocked on a giant seesaw for one-hour timeslots.
“The seesaw was mainly to catch people’s eyes and have them come over,” said Jay Perillo, VOC’s campus minister. “But we also wanted to get the message across that we were ‘tipping the scales of injustice.’”
Many students milled around the event last Wednesday, where there were plenty of brochures, pamphlets and literature to read about the event. VOC also offered Web sites, like Agape International Mission’s Web site, aim4asia.com, where people can make donations.
VOC also supplied orange bracelets, claiming that orange is the color of freedom. The group encouraged students to wear the color to show that they are a part of finding an end to sex trafficking.
“We need to do whatever we can to stop human trafficking,” Perillo said.
Along with the money raised by the VOC members and their sponsors, Perillo estimates that donations brought in over $1,000. All of the proceeds will go directly to AIM’s site to help rescue young girls who are sex slaves.
According to Perillo, AIM helps those who are enslaved by pulling them out of the alleys, educating them, and giving them food, shelter and safety in its Restoration Center in Cambodia. The program also provides therapy and spiritual guidance to the traumatized victims.
“[AIM] is a great organization and we want to help them in whatever way we can,” Perillo said.
According to its Web site, AIM has helped thousands of people and has opened over 600 churches in Cambodia since its inception in 1988 in California.
AIM also provides financial support, disaster relief, medical supplies and personnel.
The VOC is relatively new to UB. It was started in the spring 2009 semester. Dave Ashby, a UB alumnus and head of the set-up and teardown team, hopes that the VOC will make a difference with the sex trafficking in Cambodia.
“The VOC would like to eventually expand and do mission trips and raise more money,” Ashby said.
Ashby raised money and sat on the seesaw for an hour with a fellow member of the VOC.
“I wish I could have raised more, but I’m glad that I was able to help,” he said.
VOC would like to put together more events to help end sex trafficking not only in Cambodia, but also all over the world.
“I hope that VOC will expand over the next few years so that we can have more support on campus and so that we can raise more money for all the people that we want to help,” Ashby said.
16 comments:
one of the perpetrators is ah Kdor Ngorb "Krama man"!
He has claimed that he got some children. But actually, he did not even know that those children were not even from his. He is "kdor ngorb", get it?
What is ah kwak Hun Sen the dandruff dog krama man ,new phally and ah kbt jeat khmer Australia have to say?
We simply cannot curtail or eradicate this problem, if we do not know the root of the problem.
Ask ah Sen will tell you.
CPP Traitor
It is shamefull that KI-Media even publishes this rubbish. We all know that these are just numbers made up to help NGO's raise money. If there was that many girls under age or held behind bars, why has someone not been bought before the courts.These woman libers will do anything to dominate over us men.
3:57 PM
Tell your boss (Ah Sen) to clean up his act. Your boss has no moral compass or conscience when dealing with human dignity; he has lost his moral compass, that's why the human rights records have been depressingly spiraling downward.
Furthermore, tell your boss to acknowledge the problem in liue of denying it. Plus, he, at least once, must admit his failure.
CPP Traitor
This is absolute rubbish. KI should not be part of this bullshit. 55,000 women, 35% under 16. Absolute make up numbers in order to capture funding.
It's all up to Hun Sen decision, he don't care. We all care and change needed as soon as possible.
It's one of prosperous sectors in Hun Sen government.
It's shamful that Hun Sen government , the government of the rich, who claim that the country has been prospered bloomingly, turned to be blooming in prostitution! Thank KI Media for publishing this article.
I guess pussy goes hand-in-hand with the economy. As the economy prosperous, pussy gets even more expensive. That said, during the spiral downward economy, the US dollar can certainly buy plenty of pussies.
Cheers
Cha-Ching for Choking Poker Player.
9:59PM ! your mother will curse you tobe hit by lightning!
that's a lot of sex workers, 55,000 plus!
WHO CARE...UUU SHOULD ASK HUN'S GOV TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM...OK
More nonsense from greedy NGOs that just want to raise money by making Cambodians look like lawless animals that enslave and pimp out their daughters. They just want to conquer Khmer people and build Christian churches to take over. There are more whores in any single city the USA than in all of Cambodia, why don't they try to "save" them? Answer: because they can manipulate the media reports due to the fact that nobody in the US can read Khmer! The truth is that Khmer people love their children and do not cage them as sex slaves! Editors, please stop feeding this fire of propaganda.
By sexual slavery do you mean marriage?
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