Source: CBC:
Alia Parisien counts herself lucky that she found Honouring Gifts.
The program, at Ka Ni Kanichihk in Winnipeg, gives aboriginal women a second chance and teaches them jobs skills. Most of these women are overcoming challenges such as addictions, brushes with the law, and sexual exploitation.
“I was getting money as a kid, and it was so easy to get money from this guy just to do whatever he wanted to do to me,” said Parisien, now a 25-year-old mother.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/human-trafficking-why-aboriginal-women-are-targeted-1.2589265
Wednesday March 27, 2013
Stephanie Wesley/Wawatay News
Diane Redsky of Shoal Lake First Nation says the majority of
human trafficking involves Canadian women, including
Aboriginal women and girls as young as 10.
part victimized young girls hidden in underground sex trade and
human trafficking networks, was a topic of discussion during two
separate events held in Thunder Bay this March.
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