Alwayz Lady Like Foundation, Inc. has a deep purpose which is to improve the behavior & self esteem of young girls & groom them into young ladies. They carry out this mission through advocacy community service & education to save the self respect of young ladies of today’s generation. Team ladylike volunteers, work together to instill excellent qualities for success.
Alwayz Lady Like is a Miami, Florida based foundation that service young girls from ages 6-17 years old. Recently the organization has joined forces with GEMS Foundation for a private screening of “Very Young Girls” produced and directed by David Schisgall and Founder ofGEMS Foundation Rachel Lloyd.
Very Young Girls is an expose of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old American girls as they are seduced, abused, and sold on New York’s streets by pimps, and treated as adult criminals by police. The film follows the barely-adolescent girls in real time, using vérité and intimate interviews with them as they are first lured on to the streets and the dire events which follow. The film also uses startling footage shot by the brazen pimps themselves giving a rare glimpse into how the cycle of street life begins for many women.
The film identifies hope for these girls in the organization GEMS (Girls Education and Mentoring Services), a recovery center founded and run by Rachel Lloyd, herself a survivor of sexual exploitation. She and her staff are heroic and relentless in their mission to help girls sent by the court or found on the street. Given a chance to piece their lives back together, some will e edge of two different worlds consistently battling the force that will suck them back into the underground. Very Young Girls’ unprecedented access to girls and pimps will change the way law enforcement, the media, and society as a whole look at sexual exploitation, street prostitution and human trafficking that is happening right in our own backyard.
On January 4th Alwayz Lady Like Foundation & Founder Mrs. Eboney Johnson and her Team Lady Like Mentors & Volunteers escorted 100 teenage girls from Dade & Broward counties to O’Cinema 90 located in Miami Beach, FL. The girls enjoyed a private viewing of this amazing documentary “Very Young Girls”. “Our expectations for this viewing was to show another side of life to our girls. So they can see that there are teenage girls out there their age that are going through some real hard times. We want to involve and inform the community about this film to help us not to lose anymore of our teenage girls to the streets in any state or country, “ said founder Eboney Johnson.
To learn more about GEMS Foundation’s Very Young Girls visit www.gems-girls.org and to learn more about Always Lady Like visit alwayzladylike.org.
