Last year in Haiti I shared a story or two from Son of God Orphanage in Haiti. Somehow I didn’t tell more, even though I went there all the time with teams and staff, and had what I thought was a very good relationship with the director and his family there. I loved the kids, and this year even though I wasn’t visiting the orphanage itself (you’ll understand why in a moment), I loved it when they’d see me in the street and call out to me or run to me and start talking excitedly. Most people I talked to in person about my time there definitely heard about it, and about Wendy, the boy that could pray like a prophet. I started referring to the children there as ‘my kids’ without noticing it. What I’ve been unable to share until now though is that over the last year it became clear that something wasn’t right. The resources that would be brought there would disappear quickly and the horrible health conditions and bottomed out level of nourishment in the kids went on unchanged. This led to questions, investigations, even a sting operation and until now we’ve not, for reasons of not wanting to tip anyone off we didn’t want tipped off, sought any form of media attention. Bottom line though is this:
They’re selling my kids. People are buying them, sometimes in pieces, for a lot of horrible purposes.
The orphanage was a front for child trafficking.
A few months ago the director of the orphanage was arrested and we thought that was the beginning of the end, and that the kids would finally be removed to safe locations. Last night I received an email outlining the latest goings on though, and while he will be in prison for a very long time, there are others carrying on his work. My kids aren’t safe yet – they’re still at the orphanage. They’re still being starved, abused, and when they get sick they’re not cared for. They’re still going missing, and it’s likely that the latest girl to go missing, Katia, is dead. This is as urgent as anything gets.
I can’t do anything about it on my own, I’d just make a mess of things if I could get anywhere near the people responsible right now, but there are people that have been fighting for these kids with everything they have, good friends of mine, and there’s something you can do to help them. In order go over the heads of the corrupt officials protecting these people, we need media outlet pressure, and for that we need 10 000 signatures on a petition.
Go here and sign that petition to get CNN to cover the story now: Expose Human Trafficking at Son of God Orphanage
Pray for my kids. I can’t beg for this loud enough on here, so if you want to hear how desperate I am for them, call me.
Tell everyone. EVERYONE. Email this to them, facebook them, tweet, text, whatever you can do, get this out there now.
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