This blog post is tagged "abolition". It's not about the United States in the mid 19th century, but about Slavery today, right now, and one teen making a difference.
Zach Hunter, now in his late teens, started Loose Change to Loosen Chains (LC2LC) while in middle school. Zach and LC2LC have freed thousands of slaves since this video was made when he was 12, reaching out to children around the nation to engage them in helping children around the world.
As you read this, there are somewhere between 20 and 30 million slaves in the world today, far more than the total number of people enslaved in the African slave trade. Half of today's slaves are children and a vast number of those are girls who are trafficked in the sex trade, many as young as 6 or 8 years old.
Slavery is one of the focal points of Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's wonderful book Half the Sky, which is now in it's 4th week on the NY Times Bestseller list and something like it's 8th printing since hitting the stores in September.
You can download an LC2LC Starter Kit for your teen or college age child who wants to make a difference.
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