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Slavery is very real, very dark, and very evil, and it is ripping apart innocent lives every day. There are men, women, and children trapped in slavery right now…and their cost of freedom is high. Freedom is not free. In fact, the price can be so high that it costs your whole life. Can you imagine giving up your own gift of freedom in order to set others free????

Meet a slave hunter. His name is Aaron Cohen.

He has sacrificed his entire life to the cause of setting captives free, to put a stop to Human Trafficking worldwide, a task that deems him nothing short of a modern day hero. Aaron is a human rights activist who established a modern-day movement to forgive debts and free slaves around the world. This movement turned into the launch of a non-profit called Abolish Slavery Coalition. The organization exists to fight human trafficking and restore dignity to its victims by providing safe aftercare and rehabilitation. They organize and coordinate investigations and field operations to find, identify, and retrieve men, women, and children from slavery.

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Meet Thuy Lai

“Thuy Lai was a young girl living in Kampochea only eight years old.
Her mixed Vietnamese and Cambodia heritage was seen as an asset to human traffickers who prey on little Vietnamese girls. As age 8, Thuy was the youngest madam we had encountered. An undercover Vietnamese field agent took this picture of Thuy. At the time she was being enrolled into Vietnamese girls schools, where she (continue reading…)

Did YOU Know?……

There are preteens in Thailand, who thought they were accepting an offer that would secure them a better job or higher education; tricked, they are now being raped multiple times a night for the profit of their capturer….

That there are children in Cambodia, who are victims of child sex-tourism– some as young a 5, performing oral sex….

 In Mexico, it is estimated that there are 16,000 children now involved in prostitution……

What is being done to help them?….

Did you know that there is an organization of lawyers, investigators and social workers who care so deeply for human life and rights that they have focused their lives on rescuing and mending the captives of slavery, sex exploitation, and violent oppression in our world. This heroic organization is called the International Justice Mission. It is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression.  IJM is intervening on their behalf….finding….freeing….fighting through the justice system, for people who have never known a champion on their behalf.   IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems. 

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Although we would like to believe slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century, it still continues to thrive around the world. Children reported to be as young as 5 (continue reading…)

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Okay, so i’ll give you a few hints and you try to guess who it is I’m talking about. Got it? This person founded a non-profit organization to help AIDS orphans in Africa. Raised enough money to build a school in Africa for 1000 kids who were unable to attend (the closest school was 60 miles away). The next year, he or she raised enough money to build a medical testing lab/ voluntary counseling center in Sinazongwe, Zambia to test and treat victims of AIDS/HIV. With the help of the non-profit this mystery person founded, there will be enough money raised by the end of this year to build a second medical testing facility in Chilala, Zambia. This clinic will specialize in preventing and treating mother to baby transmission of the AIDS virus.

Have you figured it out yet? No, it’s not Bono or Oprah. Any more guesses? The person I’m talking about is just 14 years old! His name is Austin Gutwein and his charity is Hoops of Hope.

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Awareness, education, and action change lives.  The UN estimated that every 14 seconds (continue reading…)