"8.4 million children work as slave labourers, child sex slaves or soldiers worldwide. 1.2 million children are kidnapped, sold or smuggled each year."- The Int. Labor Org.
These trafficked children may end up on the other side of the world, working in sweatshops to make cheap clothing, in underground mines to salvage precious stones for jewellery, picking the cocoa and coffee beans to feed Western cravings, or scrubbing floors as housemaids.
Slavery today is also a 6 year old girl in Cambodia sold by her parents into the sex industry as a sex slave and servicing 9 men a day. It's a 12 year-old boy in northern Uganda forced at gunpoint to join a rebel group and commit atrocities against his friends and family.
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Kids Behind Bars
Three times Nobel Prize Nominee, Fr Shay Cullen, working in partnership with human rights charity, Jubilee Action, launched a ground breaking initiative to help young children imprisoned in the Philippines.
Their investigation revealed that kids were held in cramped, overcrowded cells, detained with hardened criminals and paedophiles, in conditions some call torture.
The story hit the headlines worldwide with major coverage by ITV News and CNN and Global Angels Ambassador, Hazel Thompson, who was first to document the horrors, has already won her six major international awards with her dramatic photographic reports from inside Filipino jails.
The explosive story finally made history last year when the Filipino government changed the law!
As a direct result, Fr Shay felt compelled to set up a new Home where boys released from prison can receive the care and personal attention they deserve. The centre will provide medical services, appropriate therapy, educational and social skills training. It will also act as a contact point between the boys and their family.
Land has been purchased and construction is about to begin on the Boys Home and they are raising funds to complete the home. Global Angels want to help them complete the building and equip the centre.
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We have teamed up with human rights charity, Jubilee Action, as they rescue and rehabilitate orphaned and abandoned children from the red light district, of Mumbai, India.
Deveraj and his team literally rescue children from brothels and give them a new home and way of life away from the commercial child sex industry and slavery.
Jubilee currently sustains 4 homes outside Mumbai and a shelter in the heart of the red light district. Two residential homes, now house over 100 children rescued from the red light district. The Aids home has just been completed and caring for over 50 children.
The Jubilee Shelter provides a safe sanctuary for children while their mothers work and the Halfway House for older girls who have left the residential homes, helping to regain independence while still being supported. The cycle has been broken!
The children can grow up in a loving and caring environment, rehabilitated and equipped with the skills which will enable them to have a happier future.
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Center of Refuge in Uganda New hope for child victims of war
For 20 years, the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been terrorising communities in northern Uganda in a brutal civil war.
More than 30,000 children have been abducted from their homes and forced to be the mules, foot soldiers and sex slaves.
Child Voice International is creating a sustainable and replicable long-term village of refuge and care for child mothers and their children; girls who have been abducted, raped and made to serve as soldiers and “wives” of rebel commanders.
The village will include a boarding school, non-traditional educational programs, a vocational center, spiritual and emotional counseling and professional training through which these young women can earn a living, so they can become reintegrated with families and communities.
Small family units will be provided for the mothers who need long-term care. Those that can will return to their villages when they are ready to be self-sustaining.
Global Angels has been promised $100,000 for the renovation of a large building and to help build the boarding school and vocational center. The first stage of the project will house 50 young women and their children by June, when the school will open. These young families need sponsoring intitially for their food and education.
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Hagar is the most amazing organisation, making a tremendous difference in the lives of exploited women and children. A Swiss charity founded in response to the problems of street mothers and children in post conflict, Hagar has helped well over 100,000 mothers, children and family members through its social programs and economic projects.
Believing that to break the cycle of poverty, people need the necessary support, life skills and income-earning capacities to transform their lives Hagar have some awe inspiring projects.
HAGAR SHELTER Hagar Shelter meets the needs of destitute women and children living on the streets of Phnom Penh.
REINTEGRATION OF TRAFFICKED WOMEN This project places 'at risk' and trafficked women in viable and safe employment.
FOSTER HOME PROGRAM
The Foster Home Program provides care for 80 children in 10 foster home families. Some are orphans, others have come from a life on the streets and there are those from shocking backgrounds of trafficking and abuse, both physical and sexual.
Trafficking, violence against women and child abuse has risen to alarming levels. Now, more than ever, Cambodia’s young women and children need our help and support.
Global Angels Ambassador, Laura Michelle Kelly has recently visited Hagar, and gave it the thumbs up.
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SOS BAHINI (‘little sister’) is a care centre in Pokhara, Nepal.
Girls in desperate situations (abuse, child prostitution, being trafficked, homelessness, HIV/AIDS), are cared for and offered refuge, counselling, healthcare, education and vocational training.
SOS Bahini philosophy is that care in a family environment is more effective than an institutional approach.
Girls attend local schools and, after leaving the refuge, are housed in family-sized units, each with a house mother and four to six children.
The cost of running a home with house mother for 4 children, including salary, food, uniforms and other school needs, is approximately £2,000 a year.
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