not kneel tomorrow here in washington, d.c. interesting. would that be a decision that the team is all agreed upon or what is fuelling that? it is stemming from initially what the protest have been about from the beginning. that s to raise awareness and that s to help promote and bring about change and promote change and bring about change in the social issues and a number of issues that players have been speaking about now and what i am hearing from the league s office is they re calling this ground breaking and the players have agreed to not kneel for tomorrow specifically because it is not just about police brutality. they are also looking into sex trafficking survivors and also the gender pay gap and looking into discriminations. it sounds like they re
could have imagined just a few years ago. translator: i didn t know what human trafficking was until i got to the safe house. reporter: madison is a survivor of child sex trafficking, and the bras she sells part of a unique reintegration program by a nonprofit called free the girls. when we started we had this idea, and the idea was this bra could change a woman s life, and we really did not have any idea how much those women would change their own lives. reporter: we first met kim and dave sterpstra shortly after they started free the girl in 2011. the plan was for kimba to collect donations of new and gently used bras in the u.s. and send them to dave in mozambique, africa where sex trafficking survivors could sell them in the used clothing markets there, providing them with a steady income that would prevent them
from becoming vulnerable to traffickers again. the whole goal was to be a very simple project, very garage sort of project, where kimba would select a few bags worth of bras and send them over in suitcases and things like that. we thought we would work with one partner in mozambique, have a handful of women, maybe bring bras over a few times a year and that would be it. and so we never could have imagined how it exploded. and now we ve collect over half a million bras, sent them to three different locations around the world, helped dozens and dozens of women. reporter: tripstra says free the girls expanded to el salvador balls of danielle and john snyder, they run a nonprofit that works with sex trafficking survivors. i remember early on when i started working with free the girls, one of the cofounders says a woman wears a bra close to her heart. i love that a woman in the united states can donate her bra and it will come here and help
it has to do with eradicating poverty and fair jobs and climate change. all of those topics are going to be involved in the symposium today at the vatican. all right, delia gallagher live for us in rome. thanks. our freedom project highlights the fight against slavery and human trafficking. we want to show you a clip from the documentary where jada pinkett smith introduces us to rachel a sex trafficking survivors who explains that sometimes the strip clubs in the u.s. are fronts for brothels. for me being a woman means being educated and being able to stand on your own. and young people now feel that to be an independent woman and getting the lifestyle you want you get on that stripper pole. i don t remember a time in my life where i didn t know what sex was.
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