Activism.
Last night, Douglass Asian Women Association (DAWA) hosted Taste of Asia, an event that supported the Not For Sale campaign, which works to abolish human trafficking and slavery. Before the event, I did not know much about modern-day slavery except for its existence. It's just difficult to imagine a world that has made tremendous progress towards human equality still has over 27 million slaves. The majority are women, young girls, and children.
I feel overwhelmed with responsibility... how can I be presented with all this knowledge and not do anything about it? It's so easy to detach ourselves from the rest of the world as college students. My daily world revolves around friends, classes, jobs, and homework. But all of that is trivial and superficial, if not partnered with an ambition to make progress in the world.
I am most interested in GEMS - Girls Education and Mentoring Services. Its goal is to empower young girls who have been experienced sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking and escape the commercial sex industry. I am going to look into the volunteer opportunities with this organization over the summer.
Human trafficking is heavy and painful topic, so I'll let you look into the organizations yourselves to see if you're interested in the causes.
As for the rest of the Taste of Asia event...
A mountain of bubble tea!
OMG, the food was delicious! :)
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