Atlanta Adult Entertainment: APD, local nonprofit get financial boost to fight trafficking

Posted on January 6th, 2012 in Atlanta adult entertainment

Wellspring Living, based in Tyrone, will receive $141,000. The 11-year-old nonprofit, which relies on private funding and provides education and therapy, will use the money to renovate apartments that house up to 25 women, said President Mary Frances Bowley.
“These [Passion Conference] students rose up and said no way,” she said.
Bowley said domestic sex trafficking remains a major problem in the state. “The issue is really so prevalent that we don’t recognize it in our city,” she said. “Just to know what they [the girls] have been through, it will just make you want to go out and hurt somebody. You just weep for what they’ve been through.”
Each month, about 374 girls are commercially sexually exploited in Georgia, according to information on the Governor’s Office forĀ  Children and Families website. The average age of entry into prostitution or the commercial sex market is between 12 and 14 years old.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution”



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