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Girls Educational & Mentoring Services

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Girls Educational and Mentoring Services' (GEMS ) mission is to empower young women, ages12-21, who have experienced sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth.

 

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GEMS’ Girls Are Not For Sale Campaign & Documentary

Very Young Girls

Very Young Girls is an expose of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old American girls as they are seduced, abused, and sold on New York’s streets by pimps, and treated as adult criminals by police. Read More

 

 

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Since we've come from not

having the power to do what

we want or say what we want,

they show us that there is a

chance to be a leader at our

age, as youth - Isabella

Facts about Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSEC):

 

• The average age of entry into the commercial sex industry is now 11-12 years old

 

• Approximately 325,000 children in the United

States are subjected to sexual exploitation each year

 

• According to a 2007 report from the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, over 2,200 children are victimized through commercial sexual exploitation in NYC

The White Paper Project

 

Hear directly from youth survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)  and domestic trafficking about their experiences with leadership at GEMS, how they view these experiences, what they feel they have learned and what they need in order to feel supported in their development.

 

Click here to read more

“As sincere as it is heartbreaking … indicts not only the direct exploiters but also a society that jails 15–year–old girls for prostitution.”

– Vanityfair.com

 

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