According to the International Labor Organization, 8.4 million children work as slave laborers, prostitutes or soldiers worldwide. 1.2 million children are kidnapped, sold or smuggled each year.
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 jewelry, picking cocoa and coffee beans to feed Western cravings, or scrubbing floors as housemaids.
Slavery today is also a six year old girl in Cambodia sold by her parents into the sex industry as a prostitute and servicing nine 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.
"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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Three-time Nobel Prize Nominee, Fr Shay Cullen, working in partnership with the 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 pedophiles in conditions some label as torture.
The story hit the headlines worldwide with major coverage by ITV News, CNN and Global Angels Ambassador, Hazel Thompson, who was the first to document these horrors. Her work has already won 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 in favor of these children.
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 and need in order to recover. The center 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 funds are being raised to complete it. Global Angels wants to help them complete this building project and equip the center.
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Global Angels has 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 heads a team that literally rescues children from brothels to give them a new home and way of life away from the commercial child sex and slave industry.
Jubilee Action currently sustains four homes outside of Mumbai and a shelter in the heart of the red light district. Two of the project's residential homes now house over 100 children rescued from the red light district. The HIV/Aids home has just been completed and is caring for over 50 children.
The Jubilee Shelter provides a safe sanctuary for children while their mothers work. It also provides a Halfway House for older girls who have left the residential homes, empowering them 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 that will enable them to have a happier future.
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New hope for child victims of war Center of Refuge in Uganda
For the last 20 years, the rebel group The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been terrorizing 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 of this "army".
Child Voice International is creating a sustainable and replicable long-term village of refuge for child mothers and their children; namely, 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 as well as professional training through which these young women can earn a living. The goal is that they can become reintegrated with their families and communities.
Small family units will be provided for the mothers who need long-term care. Those who are able to, 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 will need initial sponsorship for their food and education.
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Hagar is an excellent organization, making a tremendous difference in the lives of exploited women and children in Cambodia. A Swiss-based charity, founded in response to the problems of street mothers and children in post-conflict zones, Hagar has helped over 100,000 mothers, children and family members through its social programs and economic projects.
Believing that in order to break the cycle of poverty, people need the necessary support, life skills and income-earning capacities to transform their lives, Hagar has some awe- inspiring projects.
HAGAR SHELTER The 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 family homes. Some are orphans, others have come from a life on the streets, many come from shocking backgrounds of trafficking and abuse.
Trafficking, violence against women, and child abuse has risen to alarming levels in Cambodia. 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 endorsed its projects.
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SOS BAHINI (‘little sister’) is a care center in Pokhara, Nepal. SOS Bahini's philosophy is that care in a family environment is more effective than an institutional approach. Therefore, girls rescued from desperate situations (abuse, child prostitution, trafficking, homelessness, HIV/AIDS), are housed in family-sized units, each with a house mother and four-to-six children.
In these homes, girls are cared for and offered refuge, counseling, healthcare, education and vocational training.
The cost of running a home with a house mother overseeing four children, including her salary, food, uniforms and other school needs, is approximately $4,000 a year.
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