Stop child prostitution

I have worked extensively with severe physically, emotionally, and sexually abused children. I have seen the trauma and disruption this causes in the development of a living creature of God. We must pray, petition help, work tirelessly as well as shout from the rooftops for all the world to hear on behalf of these innocent victims. Child prostitution along with all other forms of child exploitation are issues the general public does not want to deal with. I am working on my masters in counseling in order to work with abused and exploited children and hope to travel abroad as well as work in the States to help motivate others for the cause as well as reach out my hand to those who have been inflicted with unspeakable horror.

AHWAAN foundation is an organization who are working on child rights.Currently we are organizing a campaign to stop sexual exploitation of children.We are organizing a mass rally on 28th September2008 in New Delhi,India.please join our campaign.

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Any child that is forced to have sex needs to be helped. Any child that even chooses to prostitution needs help. Any child forced into sales of sex acts needs to be helped. Families that don’t know they are selling their children into prostitution and think it’s into a nice school or home that is better to feed and clothe them….needs help to be aware of the truth.
Raise awareness! Spread the truth! Help Mothers and Fathers around the world know the truth of where their children will end up if they send them away “to a better place”. Help send people who are willing to go help these kids around the world.
Donate to missionaries willing to go. Donate to your church.
Bring up the subject to your pastor or missions department in your church or a local missions base.
Ask me what you can do if you can’t find a brach to connect to.
Do something though, don’t leave these little children on their own to fend for themselves.
How would you like to find out your little niece or daughter was sold into a prostitution organization and you may never find her again.

Child Prostitution
It is the sexual exploitation of a child for re-numeration in cash or kind, usually but not always organized by an intermediary (parent, family member, procurer or teacher).

10 million children worldwide are engaged in some facet of the sex industry. Each year at least one million children, mostly girls, become prostitutes.In Thailand, 10-12 year old girls service men in the sex industry. They typically have sex with men 10-15 times daily and sometimes as many as 20-30. In South Africa, there are 40,000 child prostitutes.Children are more susceptible to HIV and other STDs.PERSONAL IMPACT STORY

Her family needed food and prema’s father had few other options. She was the eldest daughter, beautiful, and at eleven years old, more useful to the family away in the city of Mumbai. One less mouth to feed. One less body to clothe. Prema’s mother, with tears in her eyes, promised they would see her again. Promised they would buy her back with the money Prema made every month-money her new guardian would send to the family. A promise made to Prema two and a half years ago.

In the city, Prema is not chained to a desk or forced to hunch over menial work for hours each day like thousands of other children throughout the developing world. Prema dances at a pole, bats her eyelashes at adults who have come from all over the world to watch her. She spreads her legs and moves her body to music, the way the other girls showed her. Girls kidnapped from their homes when they were younger or sold by their parents to the brothel.

As Prema waits to return to her family, other promises are kept. Her guardian makes good on the promise he made to her parents that she would be well looked after. Men, some older then her father, foreigners with unusual accents, take great delight in watching her dance on the stage. Then they pay to suffocate her under their heavy bodies. The guardian fulfills his promise that Prema would not be denied an education. He, along with his clients, tutor her in a while new language with it’s own, intricate vocabulary. Along with the other girls in the brothel, Prema has learned to say once-foreign words: HIV, unwanted pregnancy, rape.

Prema dances at her pole, learning a new language. Day after day she tries to remember the sound of her mother’s voice, and waits to see if her parents will make good on their promise.

Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, GOD will now arise. Psalms 12:5

PRAY

Pray that God would arise and defend the little onesPray that God would raise up lawyers, movie-makers and government rulers who will bring and end to this savage exploitation

ACT

Make a short presentation on the prevalence of child prostitution and how your government could take action. Share this in your church, work place and circle of influence.copy from: A Voice for the Voiceless 30 days of prayer for the voiceless, addressing global issues of gender-based injustice.

I’m reading this book “Le Silence de l’Innocence” written by Somaly Mam. Former child prostitute (raped at 12, forced into a loveless marriage, later sold to a brothel etc) in Cambodia, she managed to get out of her hell by marrying a French man with whom she was to set up AFESIP, an organisation that aims to rescue young girls from human trafficking and sexual slavery.

It is very sad to read about the way young girls and women in general are treated in this country. This is just so inhumane and exasperating. Fancy girls as young as 8 or 9 being sold into prostitution by their own mothers or sisters and then raped, abused, drugged every day of their lives. Many would catch AIDS, STDs, Tuberculosis etc and suffer all the way to their early deaths. Why is there no justice for these poor souls?

I invited a mother to lunch today and found out that she’s a Protestant Pastor. More importantly, she and her husband have been sacrificing some of their own comfort in order to send a few thousand Euros every few months to Missionaries in India. To buy young girls from parents ready to sell them to brothels and sending these girls instead to a special orphanage that will provide shelter and education for them.

I told her that this was crazy since there are so very many such girls out there and that there is no way they’ll be able to help them all. But she said that she’s just doing what she could and that every life saved is better than none at all.

It is true that we have gotten so used to thinking that something is only worth doing if there are major results or impact, that we have forgotten that the ocean is made up of many little drops of water.