Answer:
Causes are poverty, lack of education, lack of awareness, and light punishments. Consequences are traumas for both victim and people around them.
Step-by-step explanation:
Kamala, the victim of human trafficking, is recalling her experience in this text, hoping to point out the causes and consequences of this inhuman activity.
We can determine from her text that some of the causes are:
- education and illiteracy – people who have fewer education opportunities are more likely to be the victims of human trafficking. This is because they are not met with all the possible dangers, they might happen not to understand documents and read them, but also because they are often lured with the promise of education
- poverty – people who live in poor families and with not enough life resources will more likely be targeted as victims. Victims are often promised work and good earnings as a way to lure people. Some parents will even sell their children to traffickers because of money.
- awareness – not enough information is known about human trafficking, and people are not familiar with dangers and warning signs, which is why they are more likely to become targets.
- light laws and not enough institutions – while we can see from Kamala’s story that there are institutions and organizations solving problems of human trafficking, it is obvious the problems should be taken more seriously by the governments. Harsher punishments should be introduced to properly prosecute those who engage in human trafficking.
The consequences that we can see from Kamala’s account are
- trauma – people who have been trafficked will likely suffer from trauma, causing them psychical problems.
- demolished families – we see from Kamala’s story how her family was affected by this, with her brother also ending up in jail. This is a trauma for people aren’t the victim as well.