Raise your voice for the Children
Young victims of child abuse and child trafficking need your voice, your vote and your ongoing advocacy. The Internet can be such a great resource for child victims and the charities that serve them. So much can be accomplished but are we speaking loudly enough? Ark of Hope for Children and the victims we serve need your help.
Child advocates, these children are dying every day. Even if they are “saved” from their captors and abusers, there are not enough quality places to help them transform their broken lives. Child trafficking victims that are rescued have barely any place to go. They are placed in ill equipped foster homes, juvenile detention centers, jail and even back to the streets, where prison or death awaits them. A small number of advocacy organ izations like Ark of Hope for Children are striving to provide such things as mentoring, tutoring and even safe homes for these very deserving young people.
Consider these facts;
- Estimated number of human slaves worldwide is 30 million
- 800,000 trafficking victims worldwide annually
- 50% of those are children and youth!
- Tens of thousands of child victims are trafficked OUT of the United States annually
- A much greater number of children from other countries are brought IN to the U.S. annually, to serve as sex and labor slaves of the wealthy and corrupt
- Human trafficking rates the third highest grossing profitable enterprise worldwide raising $15.5 billion annually, just under drugs and arms trafficking
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Abused children that are victims of human trafficking are purchased and brought to countries where they do not know the language, and fed drugs to keep them under control. The estimated life span of a child trafficking victim is three to five years from the time they are taken. Once rescued, do you think they can make it on their own? They need us! They need you to be a loud ongoing voice for the efforts of Ark of Hope for Children who is working to create more than awareness. We counsel many victims worldwide using the internet to keep them fighting for their reason to live. We have plans for homes, and an entire community to house them and transform their lives back to the future they deserve. We work with an inspired young architect that has devoted his master’s thesis to bringing this to reality for the children in desperate need. Sadly, the property we were to build our first community on was just foreclosed on due to lack of funds. Does this mean we should quit? NO! It means we need to get hundreds and thousands of advocates for abused children on their feet and on their computers. Should we not reach out for children with as loud a voice as those for animal rights, the arts and other causes? Please, let your stores be read and your voices heard on the great social networks available to us. Tweet them, share them, Digg, Stumble and Tumbl them! Check our site for more inspiration www.arkofhopeforchildren.org |
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