I don’t usually put shameless plugs in my blogs.
Maybe shout outs to Tyler Boyd now and again, but rarely a plug for other groups.
But please check out a couple links if you have time in your day.
And well if you don’t have time in your day, please make some time in your day.
Last time in Thailand I was able to meet up with a friend of mine who works for NightLight to walk the streets of Bangkok and get a glimpse of the lucrative sex industry that runs this developing country.
“NightLight’s mission is to build relationships and provide hope, intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.�
http://www.nightlightinternational.com/
Later that same month I met up with a couple, Nathan and Rachel, who run Sold Project in the Golden Triangle region of Thailand.
“In the summer of 2007, a group of 20-somethings journeyed through Thailand with a common mission: to expose the plight of children trapped by prostitution. In February 2008 The SOLD Project Rough Cut was screened to friends and family and many people began asking what they could do to help. In response to this question we created the non-profit, The SOLD Project, giving every day Americans an effective way to respond to the situation: prevention.�
Prevention is not considered the glam side of anti-trafficking. Everyone wants to be in the bars and pull the girls out. Well guess what. You won’t have as many girls in the bars if education increased and poverty decreased in Northern Thailand. “Children in these areas are often forced to drop out of school and sent to the city to work. Without proper education, their options are few and they are easily lured into the sex industry.�
Do the research yourself.
If this was your daughter, son, sister, brother, or friend, you would be doing everything you could possibly do to find a way out for them.
I don’t want to preach at you if you are reading this, and maybe I will loose subscribers for giving homework, but this is where my heart is, and I think the Lord’s heart is aching and beating in unison with those seeking to make a difference in a world of modern day slavery.
