Help Act Against Injustice finance the building of SafeHouse in Nepal, South Africa and Brazil.
There are several ways to donate to the Act Against Injustice SafeHouse Project. We need financial contributions, regular gift contributions, volunteers and much more!!!
The first project for this coming year (2011-2012) is to build/finance 'LightHouse', which is a planned Safe-house Project for Nepal.
Brazil, South Africa and Nepal SafeHouse Projects In development..
Facts...Brazil is a source country for men, women, girls, and boys trafficked within the country and transnationally for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, as well as a source country for men and boys trafficked internally for forced labor. The Brazilian Federal Police estimate that 250,000 to 400,000 children are exploited in domestic prostitution, in resort and tourist areas, along highways, and in Amazonian mining brothels. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
bi-polarized economic situation in Brazil results in a situation of marginality which leaves 20 million people indigent and more than 40 million children and adolescents needy or abandoned. This situation throws more children into prostitution every day.
In Nepal and India "Parents are not selling their daughters. All of them have been forced into prostitution under false premises such as job offers, or simply by luring the girls away and kidnapping them."
In South Africa some children are literally abandoned on the streets, some as young as one year old!
The Act Against Injustice SafeHouse projects, will be built in Nepal, Brazil and South Africa as well, and will act as a refuge for housing/ protection for those young women or girls and boys who have been abandoned or abused physically, psychological or mentally by family members, powerful communities members, warlords, officials or any that have not committed any crime and need protection and those young children who have no house to live to.
We are looking initially at two projects and at raising around $12,000 each year to enable these safehouses to run and pay for maintenance, etc. Your donation to the safehouse projects will help us to achieve these figures.
Initially, the 'LightHouse' SafeHouse project in Nepal will be a temporary protection solution and we would like to build on this to provide continual education, security and a place for young people to grow and become established members of their community.
Because of the situation of a trafficked child we consider the children to be at risk so they are made project beneficiaries and placed under protection. The beneficiaries will then be provided safehouse accommodation, three meals a day, safe drinking water, clothes, medical assistance, education, rehabilitation for street children who have often been abandoned and abused, vocational training and awareness about their rights (civilian rights and violence against young people as well as counseling on legal rights) and obviously protection through wardens and trained staff.
A part-time doctor will visit the safe house and treat the ill beneficiaries. Besides treating the patients, the doctor gives health training to beneficiaries. There will also be provision of childcare, vaccinations, etc.
Our secondary project is planned for South Africa and will be ran by a partner organisation called S.A.I.F.N The 'dreamhouse' project wll enable hosts Christos and Isabel to safehouse abandoned children in their local area and provide, not just housing, but food, clothing and a Christian education.
We are also looking at a third project in Brazil and more will be placed on this site as we progress. We need initial funding to act on our goal so please help become part of this by donating any amount that you feel can aid us. thank you.
more facts...
Brazil has one of the worst child prostitution problems in the world and a thriving sex tourism industry has developed in more impoverished states like Bahia and Amazonas. (Social Security Network, "Brazil spends $1.7 ml on helping child prostitutes", Reuters, 12 June 1998)
Brazil is one of the favored destinations of paedophile sex tourists from Europe and the United States. ("Global law to punish sex tourists sought by Britain and EU," The Indian Express, 21 November 1997).
Many of the girls of Nepal and India have been trapped in India's booming sex industry, and the sex trade is expanding as the poor get poorer...help us to stand in the gap and free children trapped in slavery and abuse.
The life of street children in Nepal is one of desperation and misery. Abandoned by parents who can no longer afford them, they pick through the rubbish for food and scavenge for plastic to sell. Drug use among these children is prolific. The 'LightHouse' gives children the opportunity to come off the streets and live in a loving home. They are provided with food, clothing and education, eventually being reintegrated into the community with hope for the future and self supporting skills.
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." Mathew 5:14-16
Help us take a stand against this by supporting us through prayer and also through volunteering and through donations.
