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Exploited Women and Children
Every year 700,000 women and children are trafficked across borders: 
- In 1997, an estimated 175,000 women and girls were trafficked from Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States alone
- 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States every year
- 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work in developing countries
- Of these, 50-60 million children work in hazardous circumstances
- 100 million children live or work on the streets
- More than 120,000 children live and/or work on the streets in Indonesia today, an increase of 150% since 1997
Save the Children's goal is to ensure the critical care and protection needs of at risk children as well as to prevent exploitation of girls and boys:
- Provide Care & Protection for Children at Risk
- Increase access to health, education, and shelter for working children
- Identify and protect trafficked children
- Prevention Through Community-Based Responses
- Raise community awareness and protection responses
- Increase skills training and economic alternatives for youth & families
- Reintegration & Rehabilitation
- Positive pathways and alternatives
- Psychosocial support
- Advocacy
- Media campaign on trafficking issues
- Pursue policies to increase public and private funding
You can help Save the Children respond to emergencies that put at great risk the survival, protection, and well-being of significant numbers of children. By contributing to the Children’s Emergency Fund, you enable us to respond immediately to children and families who urgently need our help when disasters strike. Donate to the Children's Emergency Fund.
