Posts Tagged "human trafficking"

This week I’m hosting  Lenora Worth with The Diamond Secret, Kathi Macias with The Deliverer, Sandra Robbins with Angel of the Cove, and LoRee Peery with Found in the Woods. If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (August 26th) evening. Interview with the hero with The Deliverer by Kathi Macias: 1. Jonathan Flannery, tell me the most interesting thing about you. I was raised in a loving Christian home with a pastor for a dad and was even...

It is estimated that 293,000 American youths are at risk of becoming involved in sex trafficking. We aren’t talking about just 16-18 year olds but younger children, too. The average age is 12-13 years old. The FBI says this problem is growing in the United States with pimps on social media sites to lure more youths. Most of these teens are runaways or throwaway kids, often children that have been abused or kicked out of their families. Some teens are targeted and kidnapped or their parents sell them to a trafficker. Anyway you look at it, these youths are trapped in a horrific situation with little means of getting out. They become victimized, not just girls but boys, too. 1. We need to recognized the problem. Human trafficking exist in the United States,...

Congratulations to Marianne for winning Kay Marshall Strom’s Hope of Shridula, Pearl for winning Dora Hiers’ Journey’s End, Abi for winning JoAnn Durgin’s Second Time Around and Mary for winning Zeke Lam’s Submission. This week I’m hosting Judy Christie with Downtown Green, Kathi Macias with Special Delivery, Sharon Dunn with Broken Trust, and Alyssa Liljequist with Deadly Delirium (ebook).  If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The...

I asked a reader who works with victims of human trafficking to tell us about what she does. I wrote Saving Hope to showcase a world problem that needs help in stopping. I really appreciate Kim Wong sharing her story.     Background Info: Kim Wong is a 27-year-old Chinese-American. She currently lives in Kolkata, India, but she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis and wants to continue on to medical school in the near future.   What do you do to stop human trafficking? I volunteer for a social welfare organization in India that rescues women and young girls from sex slavery. I spend most of my time at a girls’ home that has 19 girls ages 6-17. Most if not...