Graham Evans

Graham Evans is working alongside a non-profit human trafficking coalition. He came to our entrepreneurship class to talk to us about the issues of human trafficking in today’s society, specifically how it’s growing in undeveloped countries or any country that is male dominated. Human trafficking is when young girls and teens are kidnapped, abducted, or sold into the sex trade and are drugged and forced to sell sex for the benefit of their owners. Sometimes, if one of these sex trade victims get pregnant, the owners cheer because this means if it’s a baby girl she’s another person they can use to increase business and if it’s a baby boy they can use him as a slave. I’ve actually read a book call “Half the Sky” that specifically discussed human trafficking, its concerns, and certain groups, like Evans’, that are trying to stop human trafficking. I was shocked when he asked the class, “Why do you think these girls are in the sex trade in the first place?” and the students commented that the girls were into drugs or into sex or were brought up in a bad way. But that’s the complete opposite of what’s really going on there. We may be use to things like that, but over there people are virgins until after they’re married. It’s a completely different world there. I thought the exercise we did in class really brought us together as a group and helped us understand what our business plans should be about.