Dug Shelby Across America For Human Trafficking Awareness

In an article entitled Dug Shelby will pedal bamboo recumbent bicycle from Paso to New York by

Meagan Friberg of  the Paso Robles Daily News, Shelby becomes yet another person to join the ever growing list of modern day abolitionists fighting to free modern day slaves. 

Dug Shelby Freedom Fighter!

                           

The articles states that the issue of human trafficking became a cause for Shelby while on photography assignment in India (2008), he witnessed firsthand women and children being forced into sexual slavery in the Dubai red light district. 

Again from the article, Shelby says, “I saw 10 and 11 year old girls working the red light district,” he said, “and I witnessed women and children who were being rehabilitated through the organization I was working with. I have two sisters and three nieces and it really hit home for me; these are someone’s daughters.”

Like Congress woman Linda Smith founder of Shared Hope International who also witnessed the brutal exploitation and sexual slavery of women and children when she traveled into the heart of the brothel district in Mumbai, India in 1998 just 10 years earlier, Shelby was unable to forget the faces of the people he had seen with his own eyes. Now he is riding his bike across America, completely ALONE, to raise awareness of human and sex trafficking. Slaves are alone everyday.    

ALONE

                                                                                                  

 Human trafficking is slavery. It can be for labor or sex. Either way people are the commodity and are a re-usable resource. It is growing rapidly. It is not just in Dubai and Mumbai, India. It does not effect any specific group of people. It doesn't care what economical background you are from or the color of your skin. It only cares that you are vulnerable and that you are available. 

I hope you will look for Dug Shelby as he travels from Paso Robles, California to New York starting on September 16th, 2014. According to the article, this extraordinary 44-year old man has already hiked 2,000 miles along the Pacific Crest from Mexico to Canada to raise awareness of human trafficking in 2011. 

This abolitionists says THANK YOU DUG! I will be watching and praying. Thank you Paso Robles Daily News and Meagan Friberg for the excellent and timely article. 

****Much of this article and the picture were taken from Meagan's article. In stating this I am attempting to give her all the credit due her.**** I'm so glad I found it so I could help raise awareness about Dug Shelby's trip and his efforts. 

Dear readers, please read Meagan's article and check out the Shared Hope site. Support Dug here.