Mindset, Grit & Failure
Why is child trafficking growing despite more rescue operations?
Answered independently in 1 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
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What the archive says
01Rescue operations alone do not shrink child trafficking: Paul says after 70 missions in 15 countries there were more children being sold than a decade earlier, because every 20 kids pulled out left a vacuum that demand refilled. source →
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What was actually said
But after 10 years of doing undercover work and over 70 undercover rescue emissions in 15 countries, I looked at the numbers and I realized there's more children being sold today than there was 10 years ago. And I looked in the mirror and I said, Paul, if your goal in your life is to eradicate child trafficking and that goal came from 10 years ago when I was on that first operation, the one that was depicted in sound of freedom.
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