Dr. Glenn Miles our director of Asia Prevention emailed this blog post to me. Having been to Toul Sleng, I found it touching and disturbing. It also inspired me throughout the day in the Love146 office.
I (Dr. Miles) was orientating someone to Cambodia and showed them around Toul Sleng, the genocide museum which was previously used as a place to torture and kill people in 1975-9. There is something very disturbing seeing the images of the victims with numbers on them. During the genocide political prisoners and their families were taken to Toul Sleng to be tortured and after they had made their 'confessions' they were killed. Before they were killed they were numbered and photographed as a gruesome record of everyone who had gone through Toul Sleng. Some of the prisoners were raped by the guards. As we were going around my eye fell on those whose numbers were 145 and 146 and it occurred to me that today there are still girls and boys being tortured and sexually violated in Cambodia today. It is time that the torture stops. Please help us to help to stop child sex slavery and exploitation. Nothing less.
Another photo that motivated me today was from a couple weeks ago in the Philippines. This is a view (sorry for the poor quality) of a training in aftercare class led by Dr. Gundelina Velazco. If you want to know who is fighting in the field for the lives of children, it is the adults pictured below who are all currently working in safehomes/shelters.
I hope this day finds you motivated toward abolition and humming with hope,
Desirea
Desirea Rodgers
Co-founder, Chief Story Crusader, Love146
Your organization is one of
Submitted by Nikki S (not verified) on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 5:04pm.
Your organization is one of the things that inspired me to join a program called The World Race. It's a missions trip that goes to 11 countries in 11 months. The type of missions we will do varies, but working against sex trafficking is one of the things we will be doing the 4 months we are in Asian countries. (Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and another as yet undetermined country.) I leave in October. (first 3 months are in Central America and then starting in January, I'll be in Asia.) Our squad will blog our experiences spreading love around the world if anyone wants to check it out. My home church has also partnered with Love146 and I look forward to being more involved with this organization when I return. The things that are being done to people caught in human trafficking is just horrific and I'm glad I'll be able to do something in my life to help end such things and instead bring God's love to those who need it most. Keep up the awesome work, Love146!
wow. That is awful to hear
Submitted by Victoria / Justice Pirate (not verified) on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 4:09am.
wow. That is awful to hear about how these people in that museum were once treated and you can see the pain and anguish on their faces completely to show that they were being mistreated. It is sad how people have always been "just a number" and used as a device to make someone feel better (or more evil) through the use of power (which really is true weakness to have to hurt another).
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