Event

2013 Hope Awards

In 1988, with only a computer and $30, Ashoka Fellow, Reebok Human Rights Awardwinner and leading child sex trafficking advocate Rachel Lloyd established Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) in NYC to support American girls and young women survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. Lloyd is a nationally recognized expert on the issue of child sex trafficking in the United States and played a key role in the successful passage of New York State's groundbreaking Safe Harbor Act for Sexually Exploited Youth, the first law in the country to end the prosecution of child victims of sex trafficking. Her trailblazing advocacy is the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary Very Young Girls and her memoir Girls Like Us.

Lloyd will be the recipient of the 2013 Hope Awards & keynote speaker on Tuesday, September 24th at Tickets are $120 per person. To purchase tickets or learn about sponsorship opportunities, contact info@restorationministriesdc.org.