Live Life Loved

A few local organizations are merging art, community, and good will to raise money for a worthy cause. On May 15th, Live Life Loved Event will be hosted at the Park School on Harlem Road in Snyder, NY.

The event will be raising money, in partnership with Love 146, to end human trafficking and the billion dollar industry that illegal sex trade has created. Live Life Loved is being held to raise awareness and aid for victims of sex slavery and trafficking not only internationally but locally. The event will feature a silent auction of art from local and student artists with proceeds going to benefit victims and prevention efforts. It will also feature local and national speakers bringing light, stories, and statistics for education.

According to stats from love146.org, the U.S. State Department estimates that approximately 14,500 to 17,500 men, women, and children are tracked into the United States annually (U.S. Department of State, 2004). An additional number are tracked within the United States, althoughthe government indicates that trends in international tracking are easier to estimate than are trends in domestic tracking. Love146.orgThe vast majority of the tracked and prostituted children in the U.S. are either runaway’s, or abandoned children. Common themes found among survivors of child prostitution that lead them into that situation are: sexual abuse as a child, parental neglect, parental drug use, emotional/physical abuse from a family member, and poverty.

Tickets are $10 per individual or $15 per family available for purchase at http://www.livelifelovedevent.com/tickets.html.