All across any social media today, your feeds probably have been covered in people writing a red “X” on their hand to represent their stance against slavery for the End It Movement.
In 2009, I had the chance to visit Kolkata, India, with Compassion International. On a walk to visit Lakshmi’s home, (Lakshmi has a sponsor with Compassion International), our group walked by these girls – not much older than Lakshmi, the girl who was holding my hand and swinging my arm.
If someone had not intervened in Lakshmi’s life, she could have been one of the girls on the steps, her beautiful skin painted with bright colors and her eyes heavy with shame. But someone intervened. And Lakshmi is safe.
Is it your time to intervene on behalf of someone who needs it? Both Tim and I have intervened in Belize, India, Uganda and Ethiopia.
To explore how sponsoring a child through Compassion helps
prevent child slavery before it begins, click here.
And if you have any questions on how Compassion works, or stories of your own sponsorship, please feel free to leave them in the comment section!
Love,
Anne Marie
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2 responses to “You’ve Made the Mark: Now Take a Step”
One of our Presidents once said that if the minister preaches on prophecy, everyone’s on the edge of their seat. If he preaches on “loving our neighbors” (which this certainly is), they all go to sleep. You have my best wishes for waking them up! And my apologies for not commenting sooner. My daughter’s just home from major surgery (she had a 6 pound tumor, which thankfully was benign), and that’s sort of preoccupied us.
But I did want to tell you that our family does support two of Melissa Irwin’s orphans in Zimbabwe. I’d also like to recommend three books to any of your readers who haven’t seen them yet: (1) Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDun (Knopf, 2009); and (2 & 3) two books by Siddarth Kara: “Sex Trafficking; Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009), and “Bonded Labor” (Columbia Univ. Press, 2012). “Half the Sky” also comes in a DVD. All these are FULL of good (and often shocking) information.
So we wish you, and “End It,” the best. Praying for both you and Tim. (PS – I suspect lots of us would like to see a little bio on him here. We would. (Not on Facebook – we can’t get that, since we don’t have Internet at home anymore.)
Just a small followup note: “Half the Sky” is also available on a CD. Your library may have it; ours did.