Blog # 10 Human trafficking in India tackled by Christians

In this article, I learned that The U. S. Department estimates that as many as 27 million men, women, and children around the world are living as victims of human trafficking. This article discusses slavery and anti-trafficking among the people in India. In India there are approximately 2.8 million people trapped in slavery. Unfortunately, statistics indicate that every year, 70,000 people mainly women and children-go missing in India, with the majority having been trafficked or sold. The victims are mostly those living on less than $1 a day. Many are in desperate situations, needing financial support which leaves them vulnerable to exploitation. There is support in trying to prevent human trafficking from happing. A service called bright service is working to develop a network of churches in India to raise awareness and build strategic partnerships to take action against theses inhumane acts.

Furthermore, situations like these are happening all around the world. Mother and fathers are forced to work in field and factories against their will or in service to debts that can never be repaid. Sons and daughters are sold for sex, abducted as child soldiers, or pressured into involuntary labor. The organization Bright Hope is working with two churches in Uttar Pradesh State in the north. President and CEO CH Dyer explain. He states, their mission is to empower the local church to be the hands and feet of Christ. I learned that they also rehabilitate these young women, provide the kind of counseling to give them, what kind of job training they give them so that they never have to return to that kind of work. This month Bright Hope has launched a three-pronged approach including awareness, rescue, and rehabilitation focused on the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This is an excellent start to preventing these acts, because there are many underage females that still have not gotten out of this. In the United States Government is not enough to fight this action. The U.S. is committed to eradicating trafficking in persons, and to do so will draw on tools ranging from law enforcement and victim service provision, to public awareness building and discrete pressure.
http://www.mnnonline.org/article/16993