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En todo, amar y servir | Andrea Bohorquez | TEDxYouth@ColegioAtid


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Four years ago I met Mariana

Renis the most intense and passionate girl

that known the first time the

I heard about human trafficking

I said wow I wish one day something

move so much something I became passionate as much as

this topic the passion to her we were going

together in the Iberian in a class at

seven in the morning

this class was called social justice and

it was my favorite class because all the

Tomorrow I kept complaining

justice in mexico

impossible to think about inequality

I thought about poverty despite all these

problems and really I was very

hopeless I thought that these things did not

they had a solution and the truth is that

finishing the class of 7 returned to me

home with my friends to parties and bush

I think I complained a lot but I was

very little

Mariana listened to every morning

complaining and one day out of nowhere without

know without having spoken before me

invited to breakfast and the first thing that

I thought it was today that kid so weird and

then the truth I confess that I

I thrilled a good why I was

going through a difficult time to

make friends then immediately

accept to go to breakfast I figured that

We were going to talk about everything normal

there is music our tastes that we

We were going to meet but in reality

He told me tomorrow that he had to talk

me a very important issue to me

He said that through a foundation

she had met a survivor

of trafficking in persons in its modality of

sexual exploitation that had our

age

she was called sushi and that sushil la

it impacted so much that she said we have to

do something like young people we have to

do something and founded an association to

that other young people knew what is

treats it and we could prevent it

to others on this subject I remember that

invites the first sintra meeting

to remember we were ten

little people and in this meeting he receives me

ana ana is a girl who wanted

study business administration in

the unah and well we began to know each other

the truth made me talk because I

I felt super comfortable with her because I did not

knows anyone from the meeting and then I

The boyfriend told me about the

music

we talked that we liked poetry

we even made a confession that

we had a poetry blog at

philosopher and I believe that already

you’ll imagine a little because he did not have

so many friends and suddenly between friend

Mariana and tells us it’s time to

get a little serious in the meeting

I want to introduce you to someone very

important for the team cintra

is she is surviving exploitation

sexual and today will share

his testimony and I waiting for the

anxious testimony does not and it turns out that from

Suddenly she stopped by ana my friend she was the

testimony and I stay super

shocked because I want to ask you

how do you imagine a victim of

about

I thought of someone who probably

I could not even look you in the eyes

or that I could not talk if I cry or that

I had a lot of pain and suddenly I was

seeing

ana super empowered super good

sharing such a hard topic

sharing like her to her 12 years of

age had been sexually exploited and

occupationally by his stepsister and of

true that day to hear it pass through all

my body I felt a lump in the

stomach in the small emitter throat

the heart and that day allow the

is about people I will cross why

they

Ana’s testimony as a friend does not

as a victim and ana is the reason why

which I’m standing here today

today is free

she is studying finances she goes out with

her friends

is a girl like you and me and

then I started to get involved in the

sintra volunteer to start

know more stories company know

more cases I started to know more

survivors and I realized that the

about people does not discriminate that

many times we think that trafficking

it happens only some people to

more vulnerable and I want to share

with you that a year ago I had the

opportunity to meet sophie hayes

a girl originally from london who

suffers sexual exploitation and she does not

fit with no factor of

common vulnerability did not have a

disintegrated family had no problems

socioeconomic was finishing its

bachelor’s degree but fell in love

I want to ask you how you take care of yourself

fall in love how could you imagine that

the person you most love in the world to

betray you in that way or even

to get to sell you was not exploited

for her boyfriend was actually her trafficker

and you know

his end was an easy or naive kid

nor responsible

she was just very very lonely and her

trying his app he knew how to take advantage of

this

sophie today is free and has a

foundation of help to others and others

survivors like her and then like that

I started getting more and more involved and

more in without trafficking and it grew so much that

we understood that we had to get to

those places where nobody gets where the

information can save a

life and we started to give workshops

preventive in the preventive workshops

we realized that when we talked

with men

they felt it was a problem

totally distant they thought that the

about people was just a matter of

women

and once again we

we have a testimony to tell the

respect

One day a young man came to the foundation

of 16 years his biggest dream was

be a dancer and then he was

cheated through a school where

they promised him that he would be the best

dancer false promises of fame

they brought from his house once he was

with his handlers they shaved him

a wig forced him to dress up

woman and exploited him sexually in

Calzada de Tlalpan and you know it was not

homosexual did not want to be there

I just wanted to do what more

I loved in the world that was dancing yucumo

someone who took advantage of this because

I tell you all these stories because

they are part of the day to day of work

that he does without trafficking today is part of me

work and I want to share how it is that

I got to be here my friend

Mariana received a letter from the

best universities in paris saying

that they had accepted her in her mastery

that meant that Mariana was going to have

to go approximately two years of

Mexico and I remember that I was

working in a marketing company

very father very strawberry

by the way, he studies marketing and

I receive this call where Mariana gives me

the news and suddenly it offers me

work as vice president in sintrat

do not know what this meant to me

because without treating what he loved most

do and really that the agency and already

all the other things that I did as

that hindered me I wanted to continue

involving also remain

workshops continue doing this service

for others and then clearly that

accept but I want to tell you that it was not

a situation not easy for me

family because they dreamed that I

enter the family business and I was the

businesswoman of the year and it was not like that

then today we go through that and

they are my greatest allies

because also

they want to live in a mexico – premiums

fair

I never imagined that I would have the

forces of the heart to fight against

trafficking in persons but every day what

I see as a new opportunity to have

Hope because I think it’s worth it

every second dedicated for a child

and a girl does not fall into a trafficking network

what is worth everything to tell what

passed the life be rescued and I think that

all together we can achieve achieve a

change to be able to have a free Mexico

for all

I want to invite you today to you

passion is what you dare to do

social entrepreneur to be a better

person

a better citizen to that together

let’s build a more understood society

in hope in a purpose because today

it is necessary to restore mexico

thank you very much

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