Good overview of the issues and potential for solutions... Grateful for this piece that inspires as it offers tentative answers.
** The first episode asks specifically what can be done to end sex trafficking in the US, highlights the vulnerability of girls targeted, offers law enforcement strategies that don't repeat the trauma or engage in victim-blaming, and showcases nonprofits helping survivors build new lives. Zooms in on Nashville, Boston, and Chicago.
Some themes and quotes:
"The bootcamp for prostitution is child rape."
"...this horrible maelstrom that creates being trapped and forced into prostitution."
"You know, I was arrested 167 times and he was arrested zero. And I would have done life in prison before testifying against that man... There has to be a better way."
Think about having to have sex with 10-20 strangers per night: "Who would choose to do that?"
There are 10 times as many johns as there are people selling sex, but 60% of arrests are the women.
"If there were no johns there would be no prostitution."
Drugs, prostitution, trafficking, "it's all so interwoven," that a business arrangement is not the reality.
"There are an awful lot of men who buy sex and have a lot to lose."
"The products we're making are a by-product of what we're trying to do."
Ultimately, investing in prevention, providing holistic long-term answers through rescue, safe houses, and skills training, creating jobs, is much cheaper than prison, crime, etc...
** The second episode focuses in on poverty. emphasizing how poverty isn't just about not having money--it's about not having hope or the ability to imagine a different future. Takes us to West Virginia, where Save the Children is trying to disrupt the cycle by focusing on supporting poor mothers and their young kids, then to a holistic education program in Haiti, and a program in Colombia that addresses social challenges facing teenage mothers.
Themes and quotes:
"Talent is universal but opportunity is not." Gender and poverty are the biggest inhibitors to opportunity.
The cycle of poverty is a "daily deadening drumbeat."
Even programs with good evidence bases are catastrophically underfunded in part because there is an inherent shame associated with poverty, and because poor kids don't have powerful lobbies fighting for them and so the programs that help them get cut even though legislators say they support early childhood interventions.
There are plenty of inexpensive things to buy in America, but "it's not about the things. It's about who you are inside and what poverty does to that person."
"One of the reasons there hasn't been more progress is that poverty in America is essentially invisible."
"This is real failure of the national media. You can't solve problems if you're not aware, you cant solve them if they aren't on the national agenda."
Regarding those people who criticize the poor for their conditions: "that's people who were born on third base, reproaching everyone else for not hitting homers."
"It's embarrassing as a country of wealth that one in four kids are growing up in poverty."
"It is so much easier to prevent problems at the front end than to spend money to fix things at the back end." -- A matter of how you want to invest...
"When you have a dream you have to walk to that dream."
Help those who are already doing work to make a difference.
The data shows that helping to create HOPE is an influential non-numerical way to make a difference in the problem of poverty.
** Because the worst violation of human rights in the world is violence against women, the third episode stresses the way that hope, empathy, and education can fight violence, human trafficking, and poverty, focusing on intimate partner violence interventions in Atlanta and a holistic education program in Kenya that provides the most vulnerable girls with the most potential an education and chance for success.
Themes and quotes:
"These are not private matters. These are not cultural matters. These are crimes against human beings."
"Between 2000-2006, 3,200 Americans died at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. In that same period, you had more than three times that many who died as a result of domestic violence.... Think of all the headlines we had about the war.... This is something that affects one woman in four, in America, kills one woman in the U.S. every six hours... doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves."
"It impacts the entire family unit. It comes into the home."
"If you ask, 'why didn't you leave,' but there's a psychological oppression to abuse. Domestic violence is really about control. When you're told every day that nobody else is going to want you, you're nothing, and you know, you're capable of nothing, I think the impact it has on the human spirit is always shocking because you know that reverberates through so many lives."
"It has been extremely hard for us to have to uproot our life for someone who should be in jail."
Men stopping violence group has been helpful because it teaches men to address and overcome their own tendencies toward violence without minimizing or justifying their behavior.
Shining Hope school for girls has a holistic 360 degrees approach to education and health. Founder chose books instead of drugs.
"Persistence, in many ways, has been our only tool."
Because local projects are adaptable, flexible, and able to address immediate needs as they arise, the producers suggest we look for solutions initiated from within local communities, working in partnership with others outside those communities. Nonprofit, trial and intuition models are aligning more and more with data driven measures of success.
The motivation for this series was to respond to those who approached Kristof and WuDunn after Half the Sky, asking: What can we do? How can we help? Their answer is to look for "innovative, evidence-based solutions that reduce the scope of the problem."
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