Positioned ON THE BORDER OF TWO COUNTRIES WHERE WOMEN ARE TRAPPED AND EXPLOITED…
Right now, women and children are trapped along the northern coast of Africa, in a region that serves as a potential bridge to a fresh start. Tragically, it is also a pipeline for sex trafficking.
Like other desperate migrants seeking a new life in Europe, these women and children climbed a razor-wire fence… hoping for new opportunities, only to find themselves stuck in a dark and hopeless place.
There is a need.
There is an opportunity.
Project Rescue secured a piece of property in this hot spot of trafficking in Northern Africa. And construction has begun on a brand-new Project Rescue safe house.
At this safe house, women and children will have the chance to discover true hope—and RESTORATION—through vocational training, language lessons, counseling, and discipleship.
Our partner is able to provide these women and children with urgent help, legal assistance, food, and medical care.
A brand-new safe house that will allow more vulnerable women and children to be moved out of harm’s way and into a place of rescue and restoration.
There is Hope.
Meet Munira
There are girls prostituted in the centers for minors within refugee camps. These girls are from 14 - 17, and as they can come and go from the children's home, they are picked up near the gates, taken to be sexually exploited, and then returned to the home. There are police investigations into these cases, and we have been able to intervene in three cases, interviewing the girls and taking them to safety.
One of them was Munira. She was very shy, didn’t speak much of the native language, and always looked down. She traveled by boat, train, and metro to get to our home. She was terrified of the metro and didn’t want to use the elevator or moving escalator; it was the first time she had seen them.
She had just turned 18 years old.
She was beaten badly by her father, who sold her to a family that had her as a slave in their home. She never went to school or out in the street. She had to work all day and received no pay. She was treated like a dog and heard insults all day long. After this, she also suffered sexual abuse.
For us, these stories are horrific, but for the children and women who suffer, it’s their “normality.”
Munira had never received love and didn’t realize that what was happening was a crime.
After being found and put into a children’s home at the refugee camp, she was sent to us. Today, she is the life and fun of the home. Laughing out loud and going to language classes - life for her begins here at 18 years old.
Right now, there’s another girl like Munira experiencing abuse and exploitation in Northern Africa. This is her daily normal. Help her find rescue and restoration through the love and power of God. Help make freedom her normal.
Resources
North Africa Video
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