Trafficked Kids and Child Slaves

Slavery today is typically a six year old girl in Cambodia sold by her parents into the sex industry, servicing nine men a day. It's a 12 year-old boy forced at gunpoint to join a rebel group and commit atrocities against his friends and family.  It's a Nepalese teenager, trafficked into a brothel in Mumbai, her toddler sleeping beneath her bed, her owner plotting to sell the baby as a virgin child in two years time.

It is 3-10 year old children forced to crawl into underground mines on their hands and knees to dig for the essential raw material, coltan, to make electronic gadgets like cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, play stations, wireless systems, DVD players, blackberries and pagers.

- 8.4 million children work as slave laborers, prostitutes or soldiers worldwide.

- 1.2 million children are kidnapped, sold or smuggled each year. - The Int. Labor Org.

Trafficked children may end up on the other side of the world, working as housemaids, or in sweatshops to make cheap clothing, in underground mines to salvage precious stones for jewelry, picking cocoa and coffee beans to feed Western cravings.

Wounds from slavery are severe, with children abducted or very often sold into slavery by family members. Poverty tricks parents into giving their child to a "friend" for offering education, or a job opportunity. Too poor to visit, they're often completely unaware of their child's plight, sold onto slave owners and brothels. The child is broken, not understanding why their parents don't rescue them. They feel betrayed and are abandoned.  Most never return home.

There is a growing movement of Angels across the world Stepping UP to free child slaves and end child exploitation.  As active champions of children's issues, we partner on the ground in dynamic projects that rescue and rehabilitate child slaves.  Holistic in their nurture they restore the lives of children and young people in their care. The healing process is long, but the success of transformed lives in these projects is outstanding.

Please lend your support to these children who have lost everything and help us give them their freedom.

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