As the world responds to the earthquake in Haiti, our thoughts are focused on the immediate needs of food, water, medical care, and rescue efforts. But there is another disaster looming for Haiti's children.
As if worry over food and shelter wasn't enough. As if the trauma of all they have seen and experienced in this week was not enough. Children in Haiti face a danger that is only rarely spoken of.
Even before the earthquake, poverty provided opportunity for evil men to steal children and traffic them for labor or sex. Human trafficking is always a very real and present danger to children in poverty all over the world. Now, with all of society's safeguards in chaos and aid workers overwhelmed by the immediate life-and-death needs, Haitian children are in dire need of protection from human traffickers who will target them because of the desperate situation. The Atlantic published a story this week about how human traffickers respond immediately to the opportunity natural disasters provide.
Friends of TOUCH does not have a presence in Haiti, but we are asking you to pray specifically for protection for Haiti's children during this critical time. We also encourage you to give as you see fit to organizations at work there. The Christian Alliance for Orphans has a list of member organizations that you can trust working in Haiti.
Our God is able to sustain the children and to protect them. We are praying that workers in Haiti will be able to provide protection from traffickers. We are asking for safeguards to prevent people from simply walking into a field hospital and pretending to be a relative. We are praying for God's hand to defeat the schemes of the wicked, and for the children's protection and deliverance from them.
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from men of violence
who plan to trip my feet. (Psalm 140:4)
As if worry over food and shelter wasn't enough. As if the trauma of all they have seen and experienced in this week was not enough. Children in Haiti face a danger that is only rarely spoken of.
Even before the earthquake, poverty provided opportunity for evil men to steal children and traffic them for labor or sex. Human trafficking is always a very real and present danger to children in poverty all over the world. Now, with all of society's safeguards in chaos and aid workers overwhelmed by the immediate life-and-death needs, Haitian children are in dire need of protection from human traffickers who will target them because of the desperate situation. The Atlantic published a story this week about how human traffickers respond immediately to the opportunity natural disasters provide.
Friends of TOUCH does not have a presence in Haiti, but we are asking you to pray specifically for protection for Haiti's children during this critical time. We also encourage you to give as you see fit to organizations at work there. The Christian Alliance for Orphans has a list of member organizations that you can trust working in Haiti.
Our God is able to sustain the children and to protect them. We are praying that workers in Haiti will be able to provide protection from traffickers. We are asking for safeguards to prevent people from simply walking into a field hospital and pretending to be a relative. We are praying for God's hand to defeat the schemes of the wicked, and for the children's protection and deliverance from them.
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from men of violence
who plan to trip my feet. (Psalm 140:4)
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