Some Resources

Prostitution, Trafficking & Traumatic Stress
Melissa Farley, Editor
This book compiles numerous articles that provide not only chilling accounts of the horrors of prostitution and trafficking for sexual purposes but also gives some much needed facts on the effects of prostitution on women.

The Natashas
Victor Malerek
This book was a quick read- mostly because you couldn't wait to stop reading of the horrors these women endured. It is a great look into the real business of buying and selling women and the true difficulties they encounter trying to get out the modern day slave trade.

Call+Response
This is a new movie out that should be showing nation wide by the end of October. It focuses mostly on children because every one can agree on the need to aid the most vulnerable among us but if does give a look at the wide variety of slavery going on in the work today. It highlights the sex trade of young girls to the kidnap and use of children as soldiers. It uses music as the background of the movie which makes it a very emotional and touching film.

Inspiration

The inspiration for this blog and more importantly for the idea of grace housing came from my best friend from childhood. I was a freshman in college and on a whim called her to see how things had been going. She and her current roommate had gotten into a huge fight and she had been kicked out of the apartment. In a sudden desperate realization she said "I have no where to live". She had move out of her parents house when she was 18 and it was not a possibility to go back.

I Thank God my parents are the people they are because I was immediately able to tell her to stay and my house and called my parents who were more than willing to help her out. The point of this abbreviated story is that there are so many people who have no where to turn. There are children out there who have abusive parents, sexually and physically, and are drive to the streets with no Grace in sight. They end up stealing, prostituting and doing drugs just to make it through the day. Our society, instead of giving them the Grace needed to achieve a healthy and normal life, we criticize them for making poor "choices" in life.

I want to open housing that will aid women in the exit of prostitution, help victims of trafficking in persons, and provide the little bit a Grace that can prevent women and children from having to resort to the ruthless grips of selling their bodies for sex.

Children of the Night

http://www.childrenofthenight.org/home.html

This is a awesome organization that takes children directly from the holds of pimps and offers them life skills, education, and psychological help in order for them to lead a healthy and normal life.

Why?

I am not a "blogger". I can't even write that well and I think it is pretentious that I would post things just so other people can read what I think. Who cares? But what this is for is to put out there information that is important to me and to the hundreds of thousands of me women and children trafficking around the world every year.

I want to eventually open safe housing for the many who have no place to go and are picked up off the street by ruthless pimps instead of given a fighting chance. This is a place where I can get the vital information about the truth of the problem out in a public forum and hopefully this will be a step in the direction of my future goal to establish a self-sustaining non-profit to aid women attempting to exit prostitution and save victims of trafficking in persons.

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