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Want To Join The Fight Against Human Trafficking? Here Are 5 Organizations You Can Support

When you think about human trafficking, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a movie like “Taken.” Human trafficking isn’t just a plotline in an old Liam Neeson movie though, it’s a very real problem.

By Ella Carroll-Smith4 min read
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I remember when I studied abroad in Europe back in college. Before I left, my friends jokingly told me to be careful so I wouldn’t get “taken” like in the movie. Because of movies like that, we tend to think that human trafficking is only an issue in faraway places like Eastern Europe, Asia or South America, but human trafficking happens right here in the United States as well, and there are recorded incidents in every single state.