{"id":6697,"date":"2019-06-20T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gophilanthropic.org\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:45:22","slug":"trafficking-rescues-underway-at-blue-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gophilanthropic.org\/trafficking-rescues-underway-at-blue-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafficking Rescues Underway at Blue Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blue Dragon rescues are conducted in close collaboration with law enforcement officials and are very comprehensive, including legal services, counseling, intensive rehabilitation, life skills and advocacy support.<\/strong> This holistic approach ensures survivors of trafficking can go on to lead more safe, healthy and empowered lives – to not only survive, but thrive!<\/p>\n The Blue Dragon team has started allocating funds toward rescues for the large number of girls currently being trafficked from Vietnam to China and sold into forced marriages.<\/strong> These girls are typically lured from rural, disadvantaged communities close to the Vietnam-China border under false pretenses, such as the promise of a high-paying job, then sold into forced marriages where many are treated inhumanely and held as domestic slaves. Others are captured and brought across the border against their will. This channel of trafficking is a relatively new trend, and research indicates that the demand for brides in China is an after-effect of the \u201cone-child policy\u201d which resulted in a very large male population and relative \u201cshortage\u201d of women for them to marry.<\/p>\n The statistics are quite astonishing: Officials estimate that 75% of all trafficking victims in Vietnam are women and girls who have been coerced or forced across the border to China and sold into marriage, prostitution or labor against their will. Blue Dragon alone reports that they are currently rescuing around 110 girls and women from China each year, or 1-2 each week. Between January and May 2019, the team carried out 32 rescue operations, successfully bringing home 42 survivors of human trafficking from China.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two sisters reunited after spending 3 years trapped in forced marriages.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFollowing is a short story of \u201cDuong\u201d, a girl who was rescued from China by the Blue Dragon team in December of 2018:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n