Hope For The Nations

Learn more about this Program Program: CHILD TRAFFICKING

An elderly man is walking through a slum market in Thailand carrying a clean, well dressed baby in his arms. The child has a red ribbon around its wrist. This child is for sale.

Child trafficking is rampant throughout the world, but particularly in India, southeast Asia and southern Europe. The US Justice Department (2004) reports that at least 300,000 children are traded across international borders each year.

Child trafficking is the enslavement of children for the purpose of exploitation. Child trafficking takes many forms such as:

forced labour, including dangerous labour
various forms of sexual exploitation
military conscription
illicit adoption
forced child marriage

All children who are trafficked are at a heightened risk of being abused sexually, physically and emotionally.

Children are more at risk of being trafficked if they are female (70%, ibid), come from rural, poor, sick or dysfunctional households, have ethnic minority status, are between the ages of 12-16 or good looking, or lack education or vocational training.

Children are sold like commodities into trafficking by family members, neighbours or community members. The networks into which the children are sold represent a multibillion dollar industry that operates with virtual impunity within and across international borders.

Hope for the Nations takes the view that all child trafficking is preventable. To that end, we work with local partners towards the prevention of child trafficking through interventions that support families and communities to recognize threats, create alternative sources of income, and protect children. We also work in the area of rehabilitating children who have been trafficked. We welcome you to become informed and get involved in one of our many projects!

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Project
UGANDA - Gulu : Homes of Love

Homes of Love is a ministry located inside the municipality of Gulu on 3.5 acres of land. There are presently two homes on the property, Home of Love "Courage" and Home of Love "Victory".

The majority of the children are orphans, although some children still have one parent living. In these cases the parent is unable to take care of their child, usually due to sickness (AIDS), and the child is considered "at-risk".

Children that are brought into the Homes of Love receive three meals a day, clothing, education, medical attention, and a good bed to sleep on in a loving and supportive home.

For many years Northern Uganda has suffered under the attacks of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA attacked and brutally massacred the villages of the north. During these massacres the LRA stole children, as young as 5, and force them to become child soldiers or one of many wives given to a rebel leader, or to be a domestic slave. Our coalition stands to help bring hope and safe harbour to the people of northern Uganda.

To accomplish this hope our coalition aids the war-torn, traumatized widows and orphans of the region through a two pronged approach, the Homes of Love as well as the Village of Hope (mother child/huts).

A house matron lives with the children and has the aid of an assistant and two helpers who live in nearby huts. The on-site staff become like the children's mothers, uncles and aunts who minister to and mentor all of the children's needs.

Our pre-school children benefit from attending an on-site Nursery School whose teacher also lives on-site and is able to tutor those that need extra help. The remainder of the children attend a good nearby school.

In addition, Homes of Love has an arts director who introduces the children to art, music, and drama.

If you would like to sponsor a child or sponsor this home, please click here.

Our partner organization, ACTION International, is a non-denominational Christian organization that is works in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

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Our partner organization, Be A Hero, has the mandate to create heroes out of every day, ordinary people by providing them with opportunities to change the world, one child at a time.

Our partner organization is Partners in Action (PIA).