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FRIDAY, January 20, 2012
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REACHING OUT TO OTHERS Bothell High students hold benefit for human-trafficking awareness Woodin Elementary teacher Janelle Franco interacts with her students. Courtesy photo
BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
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A trio of snowmen greet customers last Sunday at Country Village in Bothell. The area was hit with more snow this week. ERIC ALLAN, Courtesy photo
It was David Batstone’s book, “Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade — and How We Can Fight It,” that got young Bothell High minds thinking they could make a difference in others’ lives. The bestseller casts an unwelcome light on human trafficking, which junior Moriah Beaulieu describes as when a person “is forced or bribed to go with someone and used for sexual exploitation or forced labor.” She added that children as young as age 4 and up are affected worldwide. Junior Michelle Kang noted that although the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed slavery in 1865, “it’s still going on and growing more than ever. We just thought that it is a valuable lesson that everyone should be aware of. It’s not history — it’s a current issue.” On Jan. 9, the Bothell High advanced-leadership class held a benefit dessert and silent auction to raise money and awareness for human trafficking. Guest speakers were Overlake School principal Dr. Frank Grijalva and Brian L. Cress of the International Justice Mission (IJM). About 60 people attended the event, which raised approximately $1,800 for IJM. In 2001, Grijalva and his students sponsored a school
Bothell High junior Valerie Shmigol chats with Dr. Frank Grijalva, Overlake School principal and guest speaker, and an attendee (not pictured) at the human-trafficking awareness benefit Jan. 9. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter in Cambodia to keep girls in school as a means to escape being trafficked. In 2007, they decided to assist a school in Ghana, as well. According to its Web site, IJM’s first priority in its casework is immediate relief for the victim of the abuse being committed. The organization also seeks to hold perpetrators accountable for their abuse in their local justice systems. “Today, millions of lives around the world are in the grip of injustice,” the site says. Advanced-leadership instructor Valerie Spagnolo became passionate about the fight against human trafficking when one of her students held a benefit dinner focused on the cause for her senior project four years ago. Since
then, students have hosted drug-and-alcohol-awareness, suicide-prevention and bodyimage events. When discussing the human-trafficking event, Spagnolo said: “It’s really important for me that kids in a leadership class really start thinking globally and realize there’s a world out there, and there are people their ages who are not as well off as they are, and what could they do? To watch them do this is so heart-felt.” Before the event, junior Valerie Shmigol displayed passion, as well, when she spoke about the horrors of human trafficking. She and her classmates were surprised to read in “Not for Sale” that millions of people are traf-
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ficked throughout the U.S. and around the world each year. “You think about Indonesia, you think about India and you think about these poor, third-world countries where people are just solicited and they are taken advantage of… it breaks your heart,” Shmigol said. “And then you watch videos like the ones we’re going to show tonight, and you cry. “You feel so bad for these young girls and boys, and we’re sitting here taking advantage of this school system and all this freedom and liberty, and you think not everyone has it.”
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