To all the Love146 girls (and guys)…
A few weeks ago, I was able to visit some of our field projects in Asia. The trip culminated in a wedding that took place in the Love146 Round Home. The bride was a survivor of sex trafficking who moved forward from the home (was reintegrated) last year.
English Club Inductions
Three of the girls in our Round Home, Majel, Maribel, & Chile, are now students at a nearby highschool. They’re star students; always praised by teachers.
Poverty Porn
We’ve all seen the images, a malnourished child (usually African) with a bloated belly, a tortured look and a fly which has landed near an eye or mouth. The child seems to be begging us for help and with that image comes an easy answer. For a certain amount of money you can save this child by helping them have daily food, water and an education.
Survivors in the Round Home are Treading on Trafficking
Upon hearing about the efforts of so many people participating in Tread on Trafficking, eleven of the girls in the Love146 Round Home have decided to jump in and become Treaders themselves!
What does “Prevention” do?
It is a harsh reality of counter trafficking that prevention work is underfunded globally.
Defying Gravity
In 2002 during the UN General Assembly’s Special Session on Children, two young delegates representing the children of the world made the following statement; “We are children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account.”
A Common Thread
A common thread we often see in children who are survivors of child trafficking and exploitation is that they long for home. They especially ache to see their mothers again.
The Momentum of a Gift
Every Wednesday over lunch, Love146 staff in our U.S. office meet to discuss what’s happening in the organization and the Abolition movement. Yesterday, something unusual happened: Love146’s co-founders, Rob, Lamont, and Desirea, began sharing about “the early days.”
Update from Ukraine
A few of us are in Ukraine right now to meet various partners to develop a prevention strategy for at risk youth and to explore the role our Escape magazine can play in this.
But what about refugees?
We have been expressing for many years that human trafficking is mostly a tragic reality in vulnerable communities-both for labor trafficking and sex trafficking. The number of people being victimized here in the United States for forced labor and commercial sex are about the same.
