Today I was going to come on here and write an opinion piece complaining about the lack of institutions put in place to save victims from trafficking and how the common mindset in America right now is ‘if we don’t see it it’s not happening’, which is absolutely false. I fell down a rabbit hole of unnecessary research and it spiked a fury in me I have only experienced in bit sized portions before.
This global catastrophe gets less attention than it deserves, like so many others, and I am incredibly mad about it. One of the main reasons, according to a former employee of US Child Protection Services that I talked to, said “it’s because we get paid dirt”. So I looked it up and of course the average salary of an CPS officer per year is $21,500 – $23,499. So then why does the average NBA player get $8.5 million a year? Where does this tell us our priorities are?… Just a thought.
So, frustrated, it finally came to my attention that I could do something. I looked up the top organizations that USAID in Colombo works with and I found a few. I have contacted them and started discussing the ways I can help through service. Plans are being finalized, and I am not as upset anymore.
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