The Menlo Park Presbyterian Church will host an exhibit this week that aims to teach the public about global human trafficking.
Staffed by volunteers from the church, SOLD is an exhibit in which participants learn about the real lives of human-trafficking victims in nine different parts of the world: the United States, Mexico, South Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Jordan, India and Cambodia.
It will show Tuesday, Jan. 29, from noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 30, from noon to 9 p.m.; and Thursday, Jan. 31, from noon to 6 p.m. at the church at 850 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park.
Participants will travel through rooms and learn about the many types of human trafficking, such as child soldiering, forced labor or sexual exploitation. Throughout the exhibit, participants can use their smart phones to tweet, text, post photos, receive additional information and blog about their experience.
At the end, participants will learn how they can help end modern-day slavery.
Free reservations are recommended and can be made at www.mppc.org/sold.
The exhibit takes one hour to go through and is appropriate for ages 13 and up.
Visit www.soldexp.org for more information.
This is a big problem here in the Bay Area as well as elsewhere. Have you seen the gypsies begging around town? That’s only part of it.
Menlo Park Pres is to be commended for bringing this to the notice of the public. Thank you.
How does one recognize a gypsy? I do not believe I have ever seen one.
The Japanese have committed some of this trafficking in NY City. At one point, in the late eighties, some Japanese men posing as a modeling agency lured some girls from Willow Glen HS in San Jose into going back to Japan with them. one year later, one of the girls escaped and called home collect, and the whole thing was revealed.
There is a book out by an American woman who claims that the eldest son of the Sultan of Brunei kidnaps American girls to be in his harem, but the veracity of this is in question. In her book she apparently sates that these girls hope to get pregnant by him, because according to Sharia law if they do, he has to support them in luxury for life.
Currently, though, most of the human trafficking seems to occur in Eastern Europe and Africa.