11 children under the age of 15yrs. The girls love to paint their nails and ours barbie pink, play dress up, braid our hair and make flower chains. The boys love to wrestle, play cricket and soccer and get fake tattoos. They all love to play, laugh and sing. 5 children between 16-18yrs. Typical teenages, almost to cool to hang out with us. Always on their cell phones, taking lots of pictures of each other, and all fashion concious. The difference? The majority of them have mothers that were or are prostitutes, sold into the sex slave industry usually by someone as close as their brother. Most of these children don’t know who their fathers are and their mothers probably don’t either because who can or wants to keep track of the names and faces of the 10 + men they see in a day.
8 women, cooking, cleaning, washing cloths, looking after the children, going out shopping. Smiling, laughing, and singing. The difference? The majority of them were once tricked and sold to be a sex slave in Mumbi, India. Some of them have children, others don’t. Each has a story just as painful and brutal as the next.
But the good news is they are no longer there, they are here at Asha Nepal. An organization that has made it their mission to rescue these children and women. God has transformed their lives. They have testimonies of forgivness and healings.Forgiving the man that sold them into the sex slavery, children healed of blindness, others of kindney problems, and these are just some of the stories.
These are only a tiny of the fraction of Nepalies women and children that have been rescued from Mumbi. At their partnered organization, teen challenge, in Mumbi, they have over 400 children and 200 women who they have rescued. Asha is unable to take anymore of these women or children because of their lack of funds.
As a team we had the amazing opportunity to love these same children and women as Jesus would love them, in the attempt to erase just some of the hurt that this world has caused them . It wasn’t always easy but God gave us the love, grace, endurance and ideas. We made story books, noodle necklaces; get well cards for Lacey; we baked; we made and played instruments; watched movies; played countless games of cricket; went hiking, taught english; went to the zoo and the botanical garden; did daily devotions and fell in love with each and everyone of them.
Please join me in continuing to pray for them to know the great love of the Father, for contiuned healing, and for funding so more women and children can be rescued. Check out their web-site at www.ashanepal.org
