People in Moldova are willing to do anything for a chance to feed their family

Moldova is a major source country for human trafficking, which means that mostly individuals are taken from Moldova into other countries and trafficked abroad. The causes for such trafficking is the prevalence of extreme poverty in the region, while the most notable of those who remain unpunished for trafficking are corrupt government officials, an American journalist says in an article published on the website www.huffingtonpost.com, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. According to the author of the article, it is important for governments to communicate about human trafficking as a world wide problem, but the Government of Moldova does not do much about it. “The average income in this country, according to the International Organization for Migration, is less than US2000 annually. Poverty is so rampant that the people are willing to do anything for a chance to feed their family. Including taking incredible risks of migration for promised jobs which turn out more often than not to be a Trafficking scam,” says the author. “The women and children are sold into sexual slavery and taken to the Gulf States, Western Europe or the Moldovan capital of Chisinau. The men are dent to be forced laborers in Russia. We need to think of Moldova. We need to think about a land so poor that a mother would sell her youngest daughter into slavery in order to feed her 7 other children.” The journalist considers that all of these forms of human trafficking are running so incredibly rampant in Moldova primarily because of one thing - poverty. “ I wish that the government officials would have to first look into the face of a mother whose husband disappeared and whose wages never came back and whose daughter was taken to be schooled but has never written home. Only then would he know what human trafficking in Moldova really means,” the author said.