Together, We Can Rescue One Girl in India
We can’t wait to see her picture, to hear her story, to say her name. She’s a victim of sexual exploitation, but will soon be a rescued survivor. We don’t know who she is yet, but we know she deserves a life free from sexual slavery and has experienced more pain than many of us will ever have to.
It costs $4,000 for our partner, Freedom Firm, to rescue one sex trafficking victim in Madhya Pradesh, India and begin the aftercare process. Together, we can rescue one girl.
Human Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation in India
As is true in the rest of the world, traffickers in India are looking for vulnerable people and exploiting them. Finding the vulnerable is a particularly easy task in many parts of India— the world bank estimates that 176 million Indians live in extreme poverty (living on less than $1.25 a day). With the outbreak of COVID-19, poverty in the country is estimated to increase, which in return can increase the vulnerabilities of sex trafficking.
Trafficking and exploitation wear many different masks in India. While kidnapping and the use of force are unfortunately not uncommon, many are more often tricked or coerced into sexual slavery. Sex trafficking is illegal in India, but the U.S. State Department estimates that there are millions of women and girls caught in the trade today. Some are trafficked through the promise of fake marriages or relationships, sold by their parents as a child bride, or lured by the promise of a job or education in the city. Many girls are born into exploitation growing up in the red-light districts and eventually becoming victims themselves. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break because of poverty.
We Will Fight for One
In a country of over one billion people, it’s easy for the one girl to be forgotten. Especially the poor, vulnerable, and uneducated girl. That’s why the work of our partners, like Freedom Firm, is so important. They see and seek after the one girl that everyone else has forgotten. No one person should be left to a life of slavery and exploitation. Would you leave her behind if it was your daughter, or sister, or friend? With an injustice as big as human trafficking, we have to keep our minds on the one.
The thought of being trapped is an unsettling feeling. Even more, being trapped with an abuser in a brothel, trapped in a cycle of oppression and slavery—what is a light at the end of a tunnel when all you know is darkness and hopelessness? But together, we have the opportunity to provide the financial resources to rescue one girl.
We can’t wait to see her picture, to hear her story, to say her name. When we hear about the girl Freedom Firm rescued, we can’t wait to share her story with you.
$4,000 to Rescue One
Right now, Freedom Firm has had to pause on brothel raids and rescues because of the COVID-19 lockdown in India. But once lockdown ends, they will resume their work full force, and we would like to help them do that.
It costs $4,000 to send a team to rescue one girl in India and begin the aftercare process. Our God will leave the 99 to find 1—This is close to God’s heart. Let’s make it close to our hearts as well.
Will you donate $25 to rescue a life?
If 160 people donate $25, we can partner with Freedom Firm to restore a life. We can’t wait to see her picture, to hear her story, to say her name.