I don’t want to say too much about Half the Sky because I feel like I can’t say enough about the book and the cause it represents.
So I’m going to say very little. What I will say echoes something Oprah has said for decades: being born a girl in the United States is about the luckiest place you can be born. Oprah doesn’t quite say it like that but you’ll get my meaning. Girls and young women (and often boys) are tricked and sold and forced into sex slavery, prostitution, and forced to suffer other unbearable inhuman ways of life. The book made me angry and it made me cry. Sex trafficking is a thing that must be stopped.
I’m not exactly sure what I can do as one person but because I wanted to feel like I was doing something, I found a site called Sudara.org and they sell pants called punjammies. These punjammies are pants sewn by women who have come from similar backgrounds. The average pair of paints sells for approx $60. I bought a pair that I love and plan to buy more.
Please read this book and know that trafficking is not just in underdeveloped countries. Remember that Ellen Hopkins’ books called Trick is about teens trafficked in the Las Vegas area, although it does happen in other cities as well. We owe children a better life than this. We’ve got to do better.