Find Your Voice. . .Break the Chain
Pray for the Tronie Foundation Projects
A Local Ministry Helping Victims of Human Trafficking
Prayer Focus: Shelter Services in Washington State
Information: From the outside, our shelter looks like a typical home in a neighborhood setting. It is located in an undisclosed location in Western Washington. The shelter is called “Nell’s House,” named for co-founder Rani Hong’s adoptive mother who gave her a fresh start and a hopeful future. Donors have been instrumental in furnishing this house, including the Jernigan Foundation which provided furniture and Home Street Bank which helped fund the kitchen remodel. A small army of professionals and volunteers have worked for over a year researching legalities, crafting protocols, and developing programs to help survivors in their recoveries. Nell's House is not an emergency shelter, but rather long-term placement to help equip survivors with the necessary skills to transform their futures. As a transitional shelter for victims of human trafficking, Nell's House offers physical, spiritual, and psychological healing, as well as vocational training to prepare survivors to establish a life of independence and self-sufficiency. Human trafficking survivors can come to Nell's House through several channels, including through local law enforcement, domestic violence centers, and government agencies such as the Department of Social and Health Services. Pray that the Lord will bless this ministry, for recovery for the rescued human trafficking survivors and for a greater awareness of human trafficking in Washington
Information: Our Partners rescue the most vulnerable children on earth. With no parents to protect them, orphan children are defenseless against predators and child traffickers. Homes to care for orphans are underway. Each safe home has the capacity to house about 40 children. The homes provide beneficial, nurturing, holistic care to parentless infants, children, and adolescents. A healthy, flourishing environment filled with love is found at each Family Home. Pray that these homes will be effective in their efforts to bring healing to these victims and that they will be integrated back into a loving and safe place, and for strength and encouragement to the workers.
Prayer Focus: Africa Missions Project Orphan Safe Homes
Information 200,000+ Talibe children of Senegal, West Africa are young boys who are either orphaned, runaways, stolen, or given to “marabous” (teachers) by their parents who cannot afford to take care of them. The action considered a great honor, they are entrusted to so-called holy men who promise to educate the children in the Koran, and care for all of their physical needs. The child literally ceases to be a part of his birth family, and becomes in essence the property of the marabou. The grim reality for the majority is that they become hapless beggars. They wake in the early hours to memorize and chant passages from the Koran in Arabic, but are never taught what the words mean. They are then turned out to the streets to beg, unattended, for the hottest hours of the afternoon. As young as 4, they wander through streets barefoot, carrying plastic containers dug from trash heaps for their loot. They are given earnings quotas, beaten if failing to return with enough. They live crammed into overcrowded buildings, no beds, half-dressed, suffering an endless stream of infections and consequences of neglect. Members of the Tronie Foundation team work with these children to bring them freedom and a new life. Pray that the marabous will be stopped, that the rescued boys will be healed and placed in a loving environment and that this project will grow and increase its impact in this area.
Prayer Focus: India Mission Project
Information: The work of the Tronie Foundation is to increase access to primary and secondary education for children rescued from child labor in the slums of SE Asia and to create a voice for these Children by working with media and journalists and other partners to propagate an awareness and educational campaign in the targeted areas. Through its work with victims of exploitation and other partners, Tronie Foundation has learned that creating a lasting and sustainable safe community would only be possible through creating local advocacy and leadership programs that focus on educating, enabling, and empowering women and children by other women leaders. One of their goals is to promote a heightened awareness among women and children in villages in the specified region regarding exploitation, and the dangers and personal threats these pose. This project’s intent is to create an environment conducive to systemic change that will have a long-term sustainable, positive impact on combating Social Justice issues. Pray that this project will achieve its intent and that the women and children in villages in India will be empowered to recognize exploitation and resist it to prevent dangers and personal threats to themselves and others. Pray that the efforts of this project will be blessed by God to bring about wonderful change in these areas.
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