Not For Sale: Man to walk 500 miles through Phoenix for sex trafficking awareness

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Community Cares: Man to walk 500 miles through Phoenix for sex trafficking awareness

Respect Our Daughters President Frantz Beasley has started a 500-mile walk through the city of Phoenix to raise awareness about sex trafficking. FOX 10's Anita Roman reports.

There are approximately 40.3 million victims of human trafficking in the world, with a large percentage of them being women of color, according to the International Labour Organization.

Here in the Valley, one man is working to change that one step at a time.

Respect Our Daughters President Frantz Beasley has started a 500-mile walk through the city of Phoenix to raise awareness about sex trafficking.

"Every morning it's 12 miles until we get to a little over 500," said Beasley.

The walk began at the Arizona State Capitol on Jan. 1 and will end on Feb. 12 in Glendale - the day of the Super Bowl.

Beasley plans to start every morning at around 4 a.m. to raise awareness about the issue.

"In 2020 for instance, of the 250,000 individuals - the women and girls alone - that went missing, 100,000 of those are Black, brown and indigenous," said Beasley. "African Americans make up 13.5% of the population, [and] we're just talking about the women and girls out of that group."

"Black women and girls make up 40% of those being trafficked right now. When you start seeing how such a small group makes up a majority of the numbers - that's a very scary statistic," Beasley continued.

Learn more: https://www.respectourdaughters.org/notforsale

Get the latest route, meetup information here: https://www.respectourdaughters.org/events

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