Those of you who have visited my blog recently have probably noticed the countdown to February 23rd. I'm sure you all know by now that I am passionate about doing all I can to help end human trafficking. One of my favorite days of the year is the day when people all around the world mark their hands with a red X to signify their support for the End It Movement. In celebrating our Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment which outlawed slavery in the United States, we tend to forget that no law will ever completely end any crime. 27 million people are still enslaved around the world. Of those 27 million slaves, an estimated 55% are women, and 26% are children. 78% of slaves are labor slaves, 28% are sex slaves. But this doesn't just happen
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To most people the thought of human beings treated worse than animals and sold like possessions is sickening. We should be sickened. Sickened and angry enough to do something about it. Enough to talk about it, to support rehabilitation programs, to boycott companies that support the modern-day slave trade, to raise awareness, to demand our elected officials do something about …show more content…
One of the most important, practical ways to help is by raising awareness. Every year, some time in February, millions of abolitionists around the word join together and mark their hands to shine a light on modern day slavery. How can we fight an evil we don't know exists? There are thousands of good people out there who would be great warriors in this fight, but they don't even know it exists. Sticking our heads in the sand won't change anything. Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.” I know a lot of people who think that a Christian's purpose in life is to hide in their closets and pray for the world, without ever going out and putting action with faith. The Bible is very clear that we should speak up for those who have no voice, comfort the hurting, heal the sick, defend the defenseless, and rescue the lost. There are very few groups of people out there with less of a voice than those caught in human trafficking. They are nameless, faceless individuals, who live and die in the shadows. We have to be their
To most people the thought of human beings treated worse than animals and sold like possessions is sickening. We should be sickened. Sickened and angry enough to do something about it. Enough to talk about it, to support rehabilitation programs, to boycott companies that support the modern-day slave trade, to raise awareness, to demand our elected officials do something about …show more content…
One of the most important, practical ways to help is by raising awareness. Every year, some time in February, millions of abolitionists around the word join together and mark their hands to shine a light on modern day slavery. How can we fight an evil we don't know exists? There are thousands of good people out there who would be great warriors in this fight, but they don't even know it exists. Sticking our heads in the sand won't change anything. Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.” I know a lot of people who think that a Christian's purpose in life is to hide in their closets and pray for the world, without ever going out and putting action with faith. The Bible is very clear that we should speak up for those who have no voice, comfort the hurting, heal the sick, defend the defenseless, and rescue the lost. There are very few groups of people out there with less of a voice than those caught in human trafficking. They are nameless, faceless individuals, who live and die in the shadows. We have to be their