Looking over the heads of everyone in the crowd, Brianna Holden choked back tears as she relived the night she ran away from home to escape the sexual abuse from her mother's boyfriend. In a desperate search for a better life, she took to the streets. She was welcomed by the drug dealers she found, who would provide her with food and clothes in exchange for sexual favors.
"I became the walking dead," Holden said.
At the end the audience clapped. It was all only a monologue; a demonstration of the stories Marlene Villarreal and Amy Storbeck have heard from real-life victims of human trafficking. Villarreal, the Operations and Marketing Director of Blue Nation and Storbeck, Executive Director, brought "The Walking Dead Monologue," featuring Holden, Tiffany Carranza and Kristina Keilson, as part of their presentation in the DMC Retama Room Thursday, January 13, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
"Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world," Villarreal said.
Human trafficking revenues range from an estimated 9 to 32 billion dollars a year. According to Villarreal, it is growing because "humans have become recyclable."
Blue Nation teamed up with The Women's Shelter of South Texas and Concerned Women for America to
bring awareness to the human trafficking issue in Texas last week.
"Some parents, and mostly young girls, have this idea of ‘this can't happen to me.' We have to dispel that," said Kristina Vasquez from Concerned Women for America.
To report sex trafficking call the referral hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
Visit Blue Nation's website at www.whoisblue.com.
To contact the Women's Shelter of South Texas' local hotline, call (361) 881-8888.
"I became the walking dead," Holden said.
At the end the audience clapped. It was all only a monologue; a demonstration of the stories Marlene Villarreal and Amy Storbeck have heard from real-life victims of human trafficking. Villarreal, the Operations and Marketing Director of Blue Nation and Storbeck, Executive Director, brought "The Walking Dead Monologue," featuring Holden, Tiffany Carranza and Kristina Keilson, as part of their presentation in the DMC Retama Room Thursday, January 13, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
"Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world," Villarreal said.
Human trafficking revenues range from an estimated 9 to 32 billion dollars a year. According to Villarreal, it is growing because "humans have become recyclable."
Blue Nation teamed up with The Women's Shelter of South Texas and Concerned Women for America to
bring awareness to the human trafficking issue in Texas last week.
"Some parents, and mostly young girls, have this idea of ‘this can't happen to me.' We have to dispel that," said Kristina Vasquez from Concerned Women for America.
To report sex trafficking call the referral hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
Visit Blue Nation's website at www.whoisblue.com.
To contact the Women's Shelter of South Texas' local hotline, call (361) 881-8888.
For more statistics on human trafficking in Texas,
visit the Concerned Women for America’s website
at http://tstop.cwfa.org.
Photo by Joe Kaufman
Executive Director of Blue Nation, Amy Storbeck, speaks to Del Mar about the statistics of human trafficking occurring in Texas.
Photo by Joe Kaufman
Blue Nation’s Operating and Marketing Director, Marlene Villarreal,
takes notes from Concerned Women for America’s Kristina Vasquez.
Villarreal’s Blue Nation t-shirt reads “Human Trafficking is Modern Day Slavery.”
Source: The DelMar College FogHorn
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