$5 Challenge - Why we do this

Why We Do This

Every 2 minutes a child is sold as a sex slave.
The U.S. government estimates that 14,500-17,500 people are trafficked into the United States annually and 800,000-900,000 are bought, sold, or forced across the world's borders.
Approximately 500,000 women are annually trafficked into Western Europe. Of 155 cases of trafficked women, 75% of them were under the age of 25.
Smuggling humans is highly profitable and much less risky than smuggling drugs.
Children of these trafficked women are most often used by traffickers as blackmail.
600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked (for some type of forced labor) across international borders each year, with 14,500 to 17,500 trafficked into the U.S. (2005 U.S. State Department's annual report on trafficking in persons)
By 1997, European nations had more than 15,000 known child sex trafficking offenders.

5000 children die daily from not having access to clean water
2.6 billion people do not have access to a toilet
Of all the renewable water available in Africa each year, only 4% is used -- because most Africans lack the wells, canals, pumps, reservoirs and other irrigation systems (Africare)
Each flush of the toilet uses the same amount of water that one person in the Third World uses all day for washing, cleaning, cooking and drinking (www.whrnet.org).
The average distance a woman in Africa and Asia walks to collect water is 3.75 miles. She will carry 44lbs of water on her head, the equivalent of the maximum baggage weight allowed by airlines. (www.whrnet.org)
In some parts of Africa, women expend as much as 85% of their daily energy intake on getting water, increasing incidences of anemia and other health problems (www.unhabitat.org)