Your used bra could help a sex trafficking survivor find economic freedom.
Lingerie company Adore Me has partnered with the non-profit Free The Girls: Fight Human Trafficking to financially support women who come out of sex trafficking.
Lingerie company Adore Me has partnered with the non-profit Free The Girls: Fight Human Trafficking to financially support women who come out of sex trafficking.
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00:00🎵Outro music plays🎵
00:30Free the Girls' mission is to provide reintegration services for women rescued out of sex trafficking
00:55in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.
00:58It is estimated that 80% of those that are rescued from trafficking will be re-exploited
01:03simply due to a lack of job opportunity.
01:06When you have the average age of a girl being trafficked at 12 years old, you have low literacy
01:12rates, you have no job skills.
01:15Once you're transitioning out of commercial sex, we try to provide economic empowerment
01:19for these women and girls to avoid re-victimization or re-trafficking.
01:24The way that we do this is through the collection of new and gently used bras.
01:31We get about 26,000 bras a month to our collection site.
01:43In El Salvador, a woman only needs to sell three bras a day to make a livable wage.
01:53And so with that, there's freedom and there's flexibility.
01:56The other thing with bras is that the transaction of money can be a trigger for women coming
02:00out of commercial sex and prostitution.
02:03So with bras, they're able to sell exclusively to other women and take a step back from men,
02:09and it's a safe form of income.
02:12Just because they are free from a brothel or a trafficker or a pimp or a madam doesn't
02:18mean that they are truly free.
02:20That's the very first step in a very long journey towards true freedom.