by Natalie Gidney | Mar 25, 2024 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Sierra Leone
Slavery is Not Just a Historical Issue Taking someone from their home and forcing them to do anything for profit. Trafficking in persons. Slavery. Evil. An abomination. This should never happen. Yet as recently as 2021, it is estimated that 50 million people are still...
by Guest Author | Nov 30, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection
Helping Trafficking Survivors Heal and Hope Again The family unit is typically thought of as a source of strength and stability, a protective place where children thrive and where our very identity is formed at an early age. That is why betrayal by a family member,...
by Guest Author | Aug 9, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence
Combating the Evils of Organ Harvesting Many of us enjoy basic rights and liberties that we simply take as a given—the right to defend our families, freedom of expression, the right to pursue happiness, freedom of religion, and perhaps the most basic of all human...
by Natalie Gidney | Jan 24, 2023 | Access to Education, Cambodia
Reimagining Education: After School Programs Providing a Hope Filled Future Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~Confucius Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important elements of education, but there are also many other things...
by Haley Clark | Jan 11, 2023 | Countering Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence, Protection
Adult Survivors of Human Trafficking: Their Truth, Their Healing and Their Hope Traffickers prey upon vulnerability; this is true of female, male and child survivors, and it happens across the globe. In West Africa, we work with adult survivors of trafficking. On...
by Miranda Valentini | Oct 18, 2022 | Access to Education, Bahamas
Empowering Hope in the Bahamas Standing in the driveway of Tekanell’s Daycare and Preschool Center proved to be a safe space for Ms. Teka to share her heart and pour out her hope for the future of the center and the children she instructs and cares for. As I began...