Vietnam is thought for its magnificence, however there’s an unpleasant facet it’s working arduous on to repair
Once we consider Vietnam, we have a tendency to think about road meals, beautiful nature and wealthy cultural variety – optimistic issues which have attracted tens of millions 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.
Typically traffickers wish to take individuals from distant, as a result of they comprehend it’s more durable for households to go in search of them
Based on founding father of Blue Dragon Kids’s Basis, Michael Brosowski, there are tens of hundreds of Vietnamese individuals dwelling in slavery within the area, a lot 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 supply take care of Vietnamese kids and households affected by it, receives requires assist every 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 because the organisation was established in 2003.
As my interview with Michael reveals, probably the most weak to human trafficking in Vietnam are individuals from impoverished backgrounds in search of 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 signifies 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) by which Michael describes the character of human trafficking and slavery, why some individuals are trafficked and others will not be, and what he and Blue Dragon are doing to infiltrate trafficking networks in secure and sustainable methods.
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