Interview: Juliette Gordon Low on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-01-12 06:00:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets! 

This week..... Juliette Gordon Low

 

How's the afterlife treating you?

It's lovely.  And the cookies are surprisingly delicious.

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I am famous for establishing the first U.S. troop of Girl Guides (we later changed the name to the Girl Scouts) in Savannah, GA in 1912. I wanted to teach girls important skills-more than just how to pour tea and curtsey.  Today there are about 10 million Girl Scouts worldwide.  Turns out I created a great tool to empower young girls and women. 

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

I think we need more educational opportunities for girls around the world.  When young girls have viable economic options for work, they are less likely to fall for fake employment ads, get dragged into servile marriages and be lured into prostitution.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would make sure girls around the world have to opportunity to go to school- at least through primary school, but ideally through college.  I would advocate for educational equality in schools for girls and boys, as well as special trafficking prevention-based education for girls.

Any final  thoughts for our readers?

Put your thin mints in the freezer for a couple hours.  Yummmm!

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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