What Makes a Person Vulnerable to Human Trafficking?

               There are a lot of people who are trafficked to and from countries, within their borders and outside of their borders every year, but to find a exact number and statistics and how many people are trafficked within a year is hard to do, since the illegal crime of trafficking of humans is often done secretly. With this said, a few factors that often makes a person more vulnerable to this issue would be lack of education or the fact the they are in poverty and are desperate to do anything to try to get their next meal.

                Lack of education and poverty are two causes that can connect with each other as to why it makes a person more vulnerable to human trafficking. First off, lack of education can restrain one’s ability to what type of jobs they can do and can't, it also limits their choices in what they would want as a career, and how much they will get paid. If a person is uneducated they are most likely to get a low paying job that might possibly be minimum wage or under minimum wage and if you have bills to pay and a family to feed it makes life really tough. So, when the person is not able to cover all the bills anymore and struggles to put food on the table for their family, it put them in poverty, which is when someone is extremely poor. If someone were very poor it makes them desperate to doing anything that will help get them money, which then makes the person vulnerable to being a victim of human trafficking. It makes it easier for the traffickers to get to them and lured them into something such a as prostitution. 

Disclaimer: This is for my Civics Project!