Simultaneously with organizing the exhibition, we launched a Facebook and Instagram campaign, with which we have been trying to reach more target groups. In the campaign, everyday-people and well-known public figures are holding up a sign: the men’s one reads, “Real men don’t buy women”, while the women’s sign proclaims the message, “Not a commodity”.

The exhibition employs full sensory channels in order to demonstrate the steps of becoming a victim, and to show how a person can drift off to slavery. Most frequently victims come from the most vulnerable and exposed circumstances. Traffickers target two main groups: young girls growing up in orphanages who are hungry for love and easy to mislead, and teenagers growing up in rural villages with an absent healthy father figure, who is missing because of alcoholism or death. There are many ways of luring them, including seduction, verbal and physical threats, etc. In our experience, a lot of victims suffered childhood abuse and sexual exploitation at a very early age, therefore they lose a sense of worth concerning their body and sexuality, and are almost predestined for sexual slavery.

Our educational and preventive event was offered to visitors over 14 years of age, with parental permission or adult supervision.