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| Flight Attendants Fight Human Trafficking With Eyes in the Sky |
| 2017-02-08 |
| [NYT] Donna Hubbard, a flight attendant who lives outside Atlanta, has no problem speaking forcefully about the issue of human trafficking in the United States. But her voice begins to falter when she talks about her own life -- how years of exploitation shattered her confidence and turned her life upside down. "For many years, I couldn’t talk about being an addict," she said. "I couldn’t talk about being imprisoned. I couldn’t talk about getting on my feet, getting my life back, getting my children back." She paused to fight back tears. "I could not talk about that part of me where I was victimized." But having realized that airline employees are perfectly positioned to stop human traffickers and their victims in transit, Ms. Hubbard has found her mission: teaching other flight attendants to spot and report cases of human trafficking. The nonprofit organization she joined in 2015, Airline Ambassadors International, trains workers at airlines and airports how to spot, and report, cases of human trafficking. It also delivers humanitarian aid around the world and transports sick children who need medical care. |
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