#21 | How to Create Social Change to End Sexual Exploitation of Children & Impunity - Rescuing 4’700 Girls- Human Trafficking a Multi BN$ Industry - Why Good Always Prevails | Evelien Hölksen

A Freedom Fighter, Creator, Social Activist and Change Maker,
Evelien is determined to end sexual exploitation of children. She
is the Co-founder and CEO of ‘Free a Girl’. An international
organization dedicated to free underage girls from prostitution.
Since 2008 Free a Girl has rescued almost 4700 children from
sexual exploitation. And in 2017 Free a Girl founded the ‘School
for Justice’ in India & Nepal to not only fight the impunity
of offenders to change society, but also to give former victims a
future, by training them to become legal prosecutors. So far she
raised over 20M EUR to end sexual exploitation of children, and
initiated multiple campaigns gaining support from human rights
activists such as the Iraqi Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad. For
her work Evelien has received several awards, such as the Mother
Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice.


I’m extremely grateful to share this conversation. A taboo topic,
it’s extremely important & concerns us all. Many lessons to
be learned and if we raise awareness together things can change!


Evelien shares with us:
- Why she is so passionate about Freedom
- Her sudden ‘awakening’ & why she resigned that same day
from her corporate job
- Why if you shut one door another door always opens
- Why she turned to social activism to make the world
better
- How she learned about child exploitation and was deeply
touched
- Why she decided to be the change herself
- Why human sex trafficking & child exploitation is a multi
bn industry and highly profitable
- Why child exploitation is a taboo although it exists in every
country and concerns us all
- How the rescued girls find a new chance & purpose
- Why only