Child Trafficking

I am reading this powerful book called Jantsen's Gift.  A mother grieving the death of her 15 year old son, accepts an invitation to visit a Vietnam orphanage. Forever her life was changed and committed to saving one child a time from the streets of Vietnam. Upon reading an article in the New York times about child trafficking in Ghana where small boys are sold by their families to fisherman to work long hours, living in horrid conditions with other trafficked children and beat by the hand of their masters she then made it a mission to save these boys. Families desperate to feed their families sell their boys for about 20/year. They were chatting with this boys as they cruised up and down Lake Volta and they came across, Tetha. This is an excerpt from that meeting. " Tetha missed his parents, both of whom were farmers. He said he thought of them every day, and he felt sorry for whatever he did to anger them. "What do you mean?" Albert asked.
" I think they must have sent me here to punish me, he said. " I don't know what I did wrong, but I fought with my sister a lot, and maybe that's why my parents had to sell me. When I am sleeping at night, I see my mother in my dreams and I apologize to her. Then she comes and says that I can go to school. That is all I want to do is to go to school."  It is so hard to fathom the desperate situation where a mother or father has to come to this decision and where a small child struggles with why his parents did this to him. We can make a difference. If you can help one that will make a difference.What if that child was your child, your niece or nephew wouldn't you move the heavens to help them?
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