Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd (born 1975) is an English activist against sex trafficking. Lloyd moved to the United States in 1997. In 1998 she started the Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. A documentary was made about it called Very Young Girls. It was released in 2007. In 2011 her book Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself was published.
Early life
[change | change source]Lloyd was born in Portsmouth. She left school when she was 13 to work. She tried to kill herself three times.[1] When she was 17 years old, she moved to Germany.[2] She worked there as a prostitute for two years. When her pimp tried to kill her, she went to a church to live. Lloyd moved to the United States in 1997. She went back to school and got a General Educational Diploma. Then she went to university. There she got a Master’s degree in urban anthropology.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Child sexual exploitation in the USA: Not just a problem for developing nations". UNICEF. Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ↑ "News | Scarborough pushes bill to help teen prostitutes | Queens Courier". Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2014-01-09.