This is the response I get when I mention human trafficking (Huh?!?) and then I go on to tell them that the Super Bowl is one of the world's largest human trafficking events. (What?!?!) typically accompanied by a look of disbelief. But unfortunately it's true, falling just behind the Olympics, the Super Bowl is a hot spot for human trafficking- the selling of women and children for sexual acts. Foreign women and children are flown in to the Bowl to answer the high demand each year. Our own children are not safe from this fate either.
This year our interns partnered with FREE International and the Indianapolis PD to "Tackle the Traffickers," and over 60 arrests were made! We also took to the streets to help the potential victims of trafficking, stickering over 40,000 bars of hotel soap with the Rescue Hotline #. 14 of the 65 missing children in the booklet we took around to the hotels, motels, & underbelly establishments of Indy, were recovered Super Bowl week. Some were runaways looking to survive, some were children that had been kidnapped and were being exploited, and some were recovered at the coroner's office.
Unlike the Super Bowl, which comes just once a year, human trafficking is not a once a year problem in our nation, but a daily one. While you won't find "Fight Human Trafficking" in our Convoy of Hope's mission statement, you'll find it with some of our partners and closest friends like FREE International and Project Rescue. Indirectly, Convoy of Hope has a huge part in the fight against human trafficking as more and more feeding and sustainability programs open around the world, poverty stricken families will no longer be faced with selling their children because they are unable to feed them & children can stoping having to "work" for their next meal. We find many children who are recipients of our children's feeding initiatives that know firsthand what human trafficking is, how prevalent it is, and how horrific that knowledge and experience is. I know this is a sobering post, but we serve a God of Justice, Rescue, & Redemption. Over the next few weeks I will post some stories of the children of trafficking that I've had the privilege of working with recently in the Philippine Islands, I won't post the horrifying details of their past, but will tell you all about who they are today because of God's rescue, grace, and mercy in their lives. Trust me it's good stuff! Pray today for justice & hope for our children!
This year our interns partnered with FREE International and the Indianapolis PD to "Tackle the Traffickers," and over 60 arrests were made! We also took to the streets to help the potential victims of trafficking, stickering over 40,000 bars of hotel soap with the Rescue Hotline #. 14 of the 65 missing children in the booklet we took around to the hotels, motels, & underbelly establishments of Indy, were recovered Super Bowl week. Some were runaways looking to survive, some were children that had been kidnapped and were being exploited, and some were recovered at the coroner's office.
Unlike the Super Bowl, which comes just once a year, human trafficking is not a once a year problem in our nation, but a daily one. While you won't find "Fight Human Trafficking" in our Convoy of Hope's mission statement, you'll find it with some of our partners and closest friends like FREE International and Project Rescue. Indirectly, Convoy of Hope has a huge part in the fight against human trafficking as more and more feeding and sustainability programs open around the world, poverty stricken families will no longer be faced with selling their children because they are unable to feed them & children can stoping having to "work" for their next meal. We find many children who are recipients of our children's feeding initiatives that know firsthand what human trafficking is, how prevalent it is, and how horrific that knowledge and experience is. I know this is a sobering post, but we serve a God of Justice, Rescue, & Redemption. Over the next few weeks I will post some stories of the children of trafficking that I've had the privilege of working with recently in the Philippine Islands, I won't post the horrifying details of their past, but will tell you all about who they are today because of God's rescue, grace, and mercy in their lives. Trust me it's good stuff! Pray today for justice & hope for our children!
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