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Chosen Film Showing - Human Trafficking Awareness

We hope you will join the Michigan Abolitionist Project (http://www.michiganabolitionistproject.org) for a night of awareness as we bring light to the devastating truth of Human Trafficking in our community and beyond. The showing will include a film and Q&A session. Film appropriate for ages 13 years and up

Chosen,”
a 20-minute film, tells the shocking true story of two “all-American”
teenage girls deceived into trafficking. Eighteen-year-old Brianna was
an honor-roll student and cheerleader and worked at a local café.
Thirteen-year-old Lacy was an active member of her youth group, and a volunteer in her community. Both were manipulated. Both were exploited. Both were chosen.

Each year in the United States, at least 100,000 children are exploited
in the commercial sex industry. Because sex trafficking is an issue
rarely discussed at home, in school, or in church, parents and children
are unaware of the dangers that face America’s youth. The Michigan
Abolitionist Project is reaching out with the truth with this Shared
Hope International film, to equip and protect kids from being “chosen”.

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