Thank God high profile celebs are getting on board the issue of the sexual exploitation of children. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher formed the Demi and Ashton Foundation in January this year to help eliminate child sex slavery worldwide (see
www.demiandashton.org).
Shortly afterward, as part of the Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge (
www.refresheverything.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6VeWtRgxw), Moore won a $250,000 grant to train 10 former victims to serve as outreach workers and to assist and rescue underage girls currently in the sex industry.
As for ECPAT, the key to Moore and Kutcher’s campaign to end child slavery is awareness. One of the key themes of DNA is that child slavery is not an impossible problem to solve. The problem is simple: most people think slavery doesn’t exist. “It’s going to take a lot of loud voices,” says Moore. “It’s about creating the awareness that draws the line of what’s acceptable and unacceptable. Any human being enslaved is unacceptable. As long as one is enslaved, then we are all enslaved. It’s an atrocity to stand by and let this happen.”
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