Giving sex trafficking survivors economic freedom

Brut America

Your used bra could help a sex trafficking survivor find economic freedom.   Lingerie company Adore Me has partnered with the non-profit Free The Girls: Fight Human Trafficking to financially support women who come out of sex trafficking.

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00:00🎵Outro music plays🎵

00:30Free the Girls' mission is to provide reintegration services for women rescued out of sex trafficking

00:55in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.

00:58It is estimated that 80% of those that are rescued from trafficking will be re-exploited

01:03simply due to a lack of job opportunity.

01:06When you have the average age of a girl being trafficked at 12 years old, you have low literacy

01:12rates, you have no job skills.

01:15Once you're transitioning out of commercial sex, we try to provide economic empowerment

01:19for these women and girls to avoid re-victimization or re-trafficking.

01:24The way that we do this is through the collection of new and gently used bras.

01:31We get about 26,000 bras a month to our collection site.

01:43In El Salvador, a woman only needs to sell three bras a day to make a livable wage.

01:53And so with that, there's freedom and there's flexibility.

01:56The other thing with bras is that the transaction of money can be a trigger for women coming

02:00out of commercial sex and prostitution.

02:03So with bras, they're able to sell exclusively to other women and take a step back from men,

02:09and it's a safe form of income.

02:12Just because they are free from a brothel or a trafficker or a pimp or a madam doesn't

02:18mean that they are truly free.

02:20That's the very first step in a very long journey towards true freedom.

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