Thousands of indigenous Wayúu girls have suffered child labor exploitation. They are induced, mostly by their own mothers or community leaders, to leave their home to serve in the homes of other families.
Criadazgo consists of girls, in this case from rural areas and impoverished environments, being taken to work as boarders. It is one of the forms that includes human trafficking, a crime that includes “sexual or labor exploitation, for the purpose of begging, organ extraction, servitude or slavery, etc.,” says a Colombian educator.