99% of European trafficking victims are not rescued.

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When Siobhan and I first lived in Cambodia there was an ice-cream factory just down the road from the slum where we were living. On one of the outside walls there was a painting of eight different types of ice-cream. When it is hot in Cambodia it gets really hot, so going past those pictures every day got you hungry to try them. Outside of the factory in the shops all we seemed to be able to buy were only two of the types of the ice-creams displayed so one day we spontaneously went to the factory itself to ask to try the other ones. The factory manager we met gave an embarrassed laugh and said that they hadn’t been developed yet but that we could try one of the two types they had…

It’s impossible to not think of Santa this time of year. My son and I watched Elf the other day when he was sick and he has been asking me to sing, “Santa Clause is Coming to Town.” I thought after close to 30 years of Santa I knew everything there was to know about the jolly man form the North Pole that flies on a sleigh with reindeer and presents for all the children in the world. This year I learned something new about him!

In the past week I have visited two projects that are directly tackling demand. The first is in Bangkok where a team are out on the streets in the red light districts developing relationships with male sex tourists in the red light districts and the second is working with pimps in a gym in an area in Phnom Penh that is notorious for the foreign pedophiles who come to have sex with young children.