"Nonviolence means
avoiding not only external
physical violence, but also
internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to
shoot a man, but you
refuse to hate him."

Who said that?

"We will consider ourselves
successful when we have helped
a high-risk teenager in danger
of turning to the streets make
a U-Turn to a better future and
a U-Turn to a better Life."

(U-Turn 4 Life, Inc.)

Where do teenage girls go when they "dropout" of high school? Unfortunately, many young women and young men will turn to the streets to survive. The average age that a young person enters prostitution is 14, and over 400,000 young people are lured into the sex trade each year.

"Everyday over 1.3 million teens are homeless or runaways and vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

"Each year over 5000 teens will lose their lives on the streets due to assault, rape, suicide and illness."

"Over One million teenagers are involved
in prostitution in America each year."

"90% of teenage girls are lured, coerced,
or forced into prostitution by a pimp."

                    MA

USA