In the Booth with Ruth - Rachel Lloyd, Founder and CEO of Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS)

Reblogged from Ruth Jacobs:

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How did you get involved in the movement against sex trafficking and sexual exploitation?

I came to the US in 1997, originally working as a missionary with a very small non-profit that was working with adult women in the commercial sex industry. At that point, there really wasn't a movement per se, just a handful of organizations here and there, and it was just seen as a 'prostitution' issue that should be dealt with primarily through the criminal justice system.

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Thank you Ms. Jacobs for introducing us to GEMS and Ms. Rachel Lloyd.

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