Human Trafficking is the second largest crime in the United States; the exploitation of human beings or Slavery is second only to illegal drugs.
My One-On-One guest is Kay Levesques; she and her husband are the founders of Love2Hope, an organization dedicated to Beating the Traffickers.
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https://gloriamoraga.com/2021/07/30/human-trafficking-an-expert-has-ways-to-beat-traffickers/
Here is a copy of the Transcript.
One-On-One with Kay Levesques
I'm Gloria Moraga; welcome to the One-On-One podcast. I write about the power of communication.
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This episode of One-On-One is pretty special. We are talking about one of the most severe problems facing Americans and people around the world.
Human Trafficking. Basically, slavery in the year 2021. It is the buying and selling and exploiting human beings. For American's, this is not something that is happening over there.
It is here in our country.
My guest is Kay Levesques; Kay and her husband Sean are the founders of Love2hope.
The Levesques' believe communication and education are powerful tools that can fight Human Trafficking.
Transcription:
Gloria: Thank you very much for being here. I really appreciate your time.
My pleasure.
Gloria: Tell me about yourself. Your mission. Your husband and what you are doing?
Absolutely. My name is Kay Levesques. I'm married to Sean Kevesqye, and we have three kids. Connor is seventeen. Rene is fourteen. And Caden is twelve.
We run an organization called Love2Hope; that was established…well it started in my heart back in 2012. I didn't know that Trafficking existed.
I had a sleepless night. I got up to watch television, a documentary was playing, and it was one of the most heartbreaking moments.
I literally had no idea, and I knew then that I had to do something. All I could think about was my daughter. What if that was my daughter?
What would I do? What would I not do? And that set me on a course to become educated, believing that awareness is really prevention education.
Awareness will lead to action, and action will lead to change.
My goal, our goal at Love2Hope, is to educate audiences across the United States on what Human Trafficking is. How it happens, what the process is. What are the warning signs, and what can people do about it.
That was 2012, and eventually, by 2016, we knew we wanted to educate full time. Our family launched a road tour.
We sold our home, everything in it, we bought a fifth wheel and traveled across the United States, speaking and educating audiences in twenty-five different states in two years.
Gloria: Wow! That is a big commitment. Maybe give us a mini-education. What do you tell your audiences? I hear you are very informative but also quite powerful.
When I discovered Trafficking existed, I thought, for sure, that has to be another country kind of thing. I thought that's a third-world country issue. We cannot be in the United States selling Human Beings. That's not possible.
But as I began to research and read more, that is exactly the case.
Human Trafficking may look different in the United States than in other countries, but it is very rampant. The fact of the matter is, it does exist.
And it is an epidemic.
It is the second-largest criminal activity in the United States. It surpasses the sale of Illegal weapons, the buying and selling of Humans.
The average age in America that a girl is first introduced into Trafficking is about fourteen years old, between twelve and fourteen.
It's really important that we speak and educate young people on Trafficking.
You mentioned that you've seen movies on Trafficking; there are some good ones, but a lo
