Children around the world are vulnerable to the commercial sex trade and trafficking networks, either through customary traditions, forced marriages or by syndicated criminal organisations.
As many as two million children are used in the commercial sex trade and routinely face sexual and physical violence. The majority of those cases occur in East and Southeast Asia. The majority of the predators, Australian and international predators.
Project Karma is not just about catching bad guys and then rescuing children. If you don’t know what to do with the children afterwards, it’s not an effective project. So, a very large part of our focus and attention is the after-care of children and we network with several foundations and when we see that there are resources that are missing, we create them.
Founder of Project Karma, Glen Hulley, worked with the Victorian Police, serving 13 years in uniformed and covert capacities, before focusing his efforts on Project Karma. Our team establishes a liaison panel within local communities and coordinates with local governments and law enforcement agencies to combat child sexual exploitation and to prosecute perpetrators and offer counsel to children who have been abused or trafficked.