Thursday, July 10, 2008

How To Buy A Child In 10 Hours - Child Slavery In Haiti

I traveled to Haiti in October 2007 for a two-day research trip. We did meetings with government officials and multiple focus groups with educators, political leaders, and ministry leaders. In nearly every meeting, I heard the heartbreaking story of child slavery in Haiti. I came home angry at the situation and frustrated that so little was being done to help these children who are regularly being sold into labor or sex slavery. While Tammy and I are not in a position to personally touch and help these exploited children, we did channel our efforts toward building a bigger network of evangelistic workers throughout Haiti. Since then, our Book of Hope program has grown from one major distributor reaching about 100,000 children per year to three major distribution groups with the potential to reach over one million children per year. Please continue to pray with us that our work in Haiti will bring about transformation, not just in the individuals reached by the Book of Hope and The GodMan, but in entire communities, entire cities, and even the entire nation. It is only through spiritual transformation that families will stop selling their children into bondage and the government will do their job at preventing this exploitation.


The three links below will take you to the three segments of the full nightline story:


Part 1 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5336644


Part 2 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5336634


Part 3 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5336628


This next link will take you to a World News segment taken from the entire Nightline story:


World News http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5330271


Note: The ABC News website is not the most responsive. If the video does not start to run or you get an error, try again later.

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