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  • In Our Backyard

  • Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
  • By: Nita Belles
  • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
  • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (131 ratings)

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In Our Backyard

By: Nita Belles
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
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Modern slavery is happening all around you...and you can be part of the solution.

Human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. Nor is it something that just happens to "other people", such as runaways or the disenfranchised. Even kids in your own neighborhood can fall victim. But they don't have to.

Through true stories and expertise from her many years of boots-on-the-ground experience, anti-trafficking expert Nita Belles teaches you everything you need to know about human trafficking in the United States - helping you identify risk factors, take practical steps to keep your loved ones and neighbors safe from predators, and recognize trafficking around you so that you can help fight it.

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Good Message, But...

the stories turn into speeded up cartoons of good little Christian girls who pay the price for one disobedience to their parents (horrors like buying a low cut shirt mom and dad forbad) by ending up turning heroin tricks in back alleys. Even if these are true tales, they are so poorly told they seem made up.

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Very comprehensive on the issue.

I found this book really insightful and on the mark. Each chapter left me wanting to hear more.

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INFORMATIVE

I really enjoyed ready this book. I feel better informed about human trafficking issues after reading it and am further motivated to do whatever I can to help bring awareness and make use of my money and votes in a way that will impact the end of this human atrocity. I want to help. I'm continuing to research, I've found a friend with the same passion and we are going to educate ourselves and others and together do whatever we can. I would love to be contacted by the author for direction on how to proceed for the most impact. But I will reach out if I don't hear from her. I would also like a list of statistics from the book. They were informative and I'd like to have them memorized so that I can effectively communicate to others the magnitude of this horror.

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Awakening

I knew about human trafficking but I didn’t know how it worked , the things that supports it and what I can do to stop it as well as to prevent my loved ones from every getting in to that life. Full of tragic stories that has moved me to action and I hope it does the same for you.

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The need for good people to do something

I’ve learned from this book it’s crucial to educate children of the dangers before they get tricked. A really good way would be for this to be part of the school curriculum instead of CRT, which divides us into identity groups. Such awareness education about human trafficking would do so much good.

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Well done

A great informative book about a very real and disturbing subject. I highly recommend it

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learned a lot

the book started to get quite repetitive. the author did not go into graphic details on the stories presented. I think the devil in those details could have made an impact.

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Amazing and eye opening.

A must read for every man woman and young person in the world.
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An informative and educational book! Highly recommend!

This book is very informative and educational. I love that the author included phone numbers and websites as well as ways for everyone to be involved in the fight against human trafficking. It’s a must for anyone who is involved in the fight already or is considering being involved.

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A must have for all parents.

The information and stories provided in this book is something that should be discussed with loved ones. I'll be talking to my girls about what to look for and how to better protect themselves.

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