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What is sex trafficking?

Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial s

What is commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC)?

Refers to a range of crimes and activities involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a child for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of value

Trauma

Trauma is invisible; the scars are unseen. Survivors of sex trafficking have complex trauma.

Statistics and Research

There are over 4 million people sex trafficked each year and over 1 million are children. This is a $100 billion criminal enterprise worldwide. Underneath the idyllic image of sand and surf

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What is sex trafficking?

What is commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC)?

Trauma

Statistics and Research

“Ho`ōla Nā Pua, meaning ‘New Life for Our Children,’ was founded to shine light onto the dark criminal enterprise of sex trafficking, placing the health of Hawaii’s youth at the center of our mission and vision for our community.”

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