Sponsor a sexually exploited child through
World Vision for just $35 a month. Give hope for sexually exploited girls. Your gift will offer girls assistance like medical care, nutritious food, non formal education, vocational training, compassionate counseling, and, where possible, reintegration into a loving family environment.
An estimated 2 million children are enslaved and abused in the global commercial sex trade — most of them girls. Many children are sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited from the street to work in brothels.
Girls who escape or are rescued face a difficult physical and emotional recovery process. "I wanted to run away, but I had nothing, and my family was too far away," remembers 15-year-old Sophea*. "Life was unbearable ... worst were the beatings if I said ‘no.’"
You can help girls like Sophea recover from exploitation. The World Vision center was the first place in a long time where she felt safe. "I feel good here," she says. "I feel secure, nobody hurts me. I can learn to read and write properly for the first time."
*World Vision is committed to the highest standards of child protection and does not publish names or identifiable photos of exploited children without express permission.
Prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come to You in the Name of Jesus grateful that we are free and that chains have been broken around our hearts that once kept us from You and your love and fullness of life.
We lift before Your throne the millions of children enslaved globally as labor slaves and sex slaves. It is almost unbearable to hear and see what is happening in our world at the hands of merciless adults who bring unimaginable pain and suffering to these children. We grieve as we learn of story after story of victims of these heinous crimes. We lift each one to You, valuable and loved. We ask that You would hear their cry for freedom and give them hope. Lord, You and You alone know and hear all things. We entrust them into Your care.
Show us Lord what we must do in response to the knowledge that we have about these victims of slave labor and sex trafficking. Show us what child we should sponsor, what World Vision Project we should support, what community action we must take to end this abomination against humanity. Use us Lord to be Your Hands extended to these victims locally, domestically and globally. Lord, we ask that You would reveal to each of our hearts what our part is to stop human trafficking in this generation.
We pray for those buying and selling young children. We pray for their salvation. We pray that they would be set free from this evil and walk in newness of life through Jesus. We ask that You would begin to work on the hearts of those with evil intent against children in these ways; that You would speak to their hearts and show them that they can stop what they are doing and be free of their bondage. We ask that You would bring healing to these pimps and johns and slave traders so that the demand will stop and that precious children will be safe. We ask that officials and governments would take measures to impact the lives of these perpetrators in ways that will cause them to step away from these behaviors so victims can go free. Stop the demand for human trafficking in whatever way it takes, Lord.
We have hope in knowing that many millions of people around the world have linked arms and are standing firm against human trafficking. We have hope that World Vision provides the infrastructure that gives our passion to stop these acts a means of becoming an effective reality. We have hope in knowing that You can tear down walls when we pray, that You can break chains and set people free and that Your vengeance will take care of the perpetrators. We have hope in You and we ask that You would bring hope to those who suffer as victims of human trafficking.
Thank You Jesus that You hear our prayers and the cries and prayers of these who suffer. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
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