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I can’t imagine as a mother selling my daughters to the human trafficking industry, or someone kidnapping them and selling them to the industry , and I never see them again. It breaks my heart that this happens more frequently than we could ever fathom. There are families that go through this horror every single day. It’s all over the world, even in your city, town, and neighborhood. It’s easy to turn a blind eye to things we cannot see. What we are not seeing are the victims that are right in the middle of this cancerous industry. Viray was one of those victims, she was being abused, physically, emotionally, and sexually. Chan found work in the sex industry because of poverty and was trying to survive. It is so hard to believe that this is really going on. It is pure evil. The more we speak about it, the more we are aware.
Family Christian Stores is partnering with Destiny Rescue to raise awareness, and money to help fight for the children, men, and woman that this industry enslaves. During the week of November 22-30 Family Christian will donate the earnings made from your purchases to Destiny Rescue so they can start their program in the Dominican Republic. This beautiful country has a dirty secret. It is ranked 4th in THE WORLD for exportation of women into the sex trade. I never would have known this unless organizations raised awareness such as this.
Destiny Rescue offers help, and hope to those that are enslaved by this industry. Destiny Rescue offers the rescued victims a safe after care home where they receive counseling, life skills training, education, fun, and an environment to learn about Jesus. You can be apart of their healing just by shopping at your local Family Christian Store, or online during the week of November 22-30. To follow along with this challenge search the hashtag #FCchallenge on social media. I am excited to see what God is going to do during this challenge!
My friend Vanessa Harris from Tucson Arizona recently took part in a walk that raised money to help fight the human trafficking industry. Here is her story and why this is important to her:
I have come to realize that sex trafficking is happening all over the world. It is not talked about a lot and it should be. It’s slavery. It’s a scary thing to be in. It has and continues to destroy the lives of innocent women and children. It saddens and angers me that such a thing is happening.
We partner with a local organization in Atlanta called Beloved Atlanta who is instrumental in helping to fight human trafficking and restore dignity to many of the women in our city. This is such a disease that shows our depravity across the globe where we treat men and women as objects and not humans worthy of inherent value as God has given them from the time of conception. Thanks for shedding light and promoting awareness.
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Kimberly that is awesome! Thank you for standing up for these victims.
I think this is such a serious and under-known problem. I live in Southwest Florida and it happens here more than people know, usually to immigrants who don’t even know they risk being sold into slavery when they try to cross the border. Thanks for raising awareness of such an important issue.
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A lot of immigrants believe they are coming to this wonderful country to start a new life, unfortunately some have no idea that they are being sold.
I can’t even imagine the horrors that these poor women and children face. I applaud you for bringing awareness to this important cause. I will definitely be putting Family Christian Store on my Christmas shopping list!
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Thank you Sarah!
I watched a special on human trafficking a couple years ago, and it was shocking! It is more common than known and needs more awareness brought to this horrific issue.
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It’s everywhere Debbie. They just recently found two young girls in my own town trapped in this. I know they represent a small percentage.
Thanks for writing this piece on this important issue!
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Thank you Amanda!
This is so devastating. I’m so glad there are organizations like this that are working to fight such atrocities. My heart goes out to every person affected by this Thanks for bringing awareness to it.
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It breaks my heart when I read the stories. I never knew about Destiny Rescue until this challenge was given. They are angels!
What a great cause! Thanks for bringing awareness to it with this beautiful post.
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Thank you Valerie.
Great cause - I’ll be stopping by one of their stores to support.
Thank you Danielle.
Wow, this is definitely something not talked about at all. It is so sad that this happens Breaks my heart. I will be sharing this post on my Facebook and Twitter Pages.
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Thank you Tara for sharing. It is so sad to think this goes on in this world.
Thanks for sharing. This is such a heartbreaking problem. It’s nice to see how much attention has been brought to it recently.
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The more attention this problem gets, the more aware we can be in our own cities. Thank you for reading about this.
Sometimes it is almost impossible believe the stories we see on our favorite crime dramas are the reality of real people every day. Thank goodness there are at least things like this in place to help spread awareness and whatever aid they can.
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Thank you Megan for stopping by! Yes, it is very hard to believe that this happens.
It’s so easy to think of this as a problem that will never touch you personally - or so I found, until a coworker was involved in child sex trafficking. We found out when the FBI showed up to question us at the office on a fateful Wednesday morning. This is definitely something that needs to be addressed openly.
Wow, that is so sad Susan. It can be right under our nose. Thank you for stopping by.
This is so sad!! Thank you for trying to help these innocent victims.
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What a great way to bring awareness and raise money for a cause. I feel like so much horrible stuff is overlooked in the modern world, it’s good to shed light on it.
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I definitely want to support this. Will you remind us on the blog threads during this time so we can make sure to doit?
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Aisha if you follow my twitter I will be tweeting about this throughout that week. I will also be posting to Facebook too. Thank you for your support!
This is a wonderful cause! It is awesome that you are spreading awareness of something like this happening in the world and I love the initiative that you guys are taking for this.. Keep up that good work