Project Rescue

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation, is quickly becoming the world's fastest growing industry and most profitable criminal activity.
Virtually every nation in the world is engaged to some extent in this tragic trade, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims. UNICEF estimates that one million children alone are forced, sold, abducted, or coerced into the commercial sex trade annually. Their average age worldwide is 13. Estimates of women and children trafficked across international borders each year range from 800,000 to four million. In the United States alone, the U.S. State Department estimates that as many as 18,500 men, women, and children are trafficked into the U.S. each year, many for sexual exploitation (2004). (Photo and text from Project Rescue Website)

Visit their site to see how you can get involved.
http://www.projectrescue.com/about/issue.htm#

Glue Boys

I discovered Glue Boys through a fellow student who attended missions school with me in Pemba Mozambique, Africa.

"In Kitale, Kenya, among countless other towns in the developing world, many street children have found an escape from their emotional and physical pains by becoming accidental consumers. Orphaned, barefoot, and malnourished, they habitually spend the scarce money they earn from odd jobs and charity not on food or water, but on a more immediate fix – glue – incidentally the same solvent-based kind that the wider world uses to cement shoes together. With plastic bottles perched at their mouths, the children breathe in the glue’s neurotoxic fumes until they pass out or fall asleep forever. " http://www.glueboys.com/TheMovie/aboutthefilm.htm

Welcome

Welcome to my brand new blog! I have met many incredible people over the past year, and many of those people have directly or indirectly introduced me to other people, and through this new network I have come across many noteworthy charities, minitries and outreaches. Like everyone else, I prefer sending money to smaller operations that feel more personal where I have the sense that my contribution is making a fundamental difference. In that spirit, I have created this blog to feature some of the ministries that have come to my attention. My hope is that others who visit this blog will introduce their own charities and ministries and help to spread the word.