Today they are the largest privately funded charity in America providing loving care and vital services to homeless, abandoned, abused, trafficked, and exploited youth.
The report details the experiences of girls caught up in a grim world of grooming, sexual abuse, trafficking and ignored cries of help.
I also think that aiding animals like the Sochi dogs is, in many ways, an easier problem to solve than many of the world's largest human tragedies: war, poverty, child abuse, trafficking, disease, etc.
Raúf is founder and CEO of Making Herstory, a human rights organisation working in partnership with other movements to end the abuse, trafficking and enslavement of women and girls in the UK and beyond.
Too many of them are subject of sexual harassment and abuse; trafficking as well as exploitation are permanent threats.
How about the idea that women and girls could actually walk or travel about freely without the fear of being the victim of violent behavior - of domestic abuse, trafficking or slavery.
However, children remain at risk of sexual and physical abuse, trafficking and child pornography.
These children are vulnerable to recruitment into armed groups, sexual abuse, trafficking and child labour.
Children without birth certificates are more vulnerable to abuse, trafficking and early marriage, and have less access to government services and schooling.
In fleeing Burundi, these children faced mountainous terrain and security checkpoints, as well as dangers of sexual abuse, trafficking or further violence.
