Help Love146 Win $50,000!

Have you got a Facebook account? If the answer is 'yes' then you can help! Check out this letter from the Love146 office:

Hey supporters & fellow abolitionists,

Our cause just entered in America's Giving Challenge, which gives us a chance to win $50,000!

Please donate today: http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?m=103f46b4&cause_id=1533

To win, between now and November 7th we have to get the most donations to our cause (every person can donate once per day and have it count as a unique donation). We can also win daily awards of $1,000 and $500 if we can get the most people to donate in any 24-hour period. The great thing about this Challenge is that it doesn't matter how much you give, but instead how much you do to encourage friends and family to get involved in our cause. We all need to come together and start promoting the Love146 (official) cause if we want to win.

Each of us has tons of friends on Facebook who we can ask to donate to our cause. But let's think big too—can you put our cause in your email signature, can you throw a party and get people to donate through the cause when they enter, can you organize other people to go out and fundraise from all of their friends? As you reach out to your friends be sure to tell them why this cause matters to you. The possibilities are endless so let's talk about what we can do to win on the Wall of the cause or by replying to this bulletin.

I think we can do it! But it's going to take all of us. Check out the Giving Challenge (www.causes.com?m=103f46b4), then visit our cause to see how we're doing so far and get involved.

Donate right now by going to http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?m=103f46b4&cause_id=1533

Let's win $50,000 to end child sex slavery & exploitation!

Some pics from the Global Forum on Human Trafficking

I wish I could have gone to this two day conference in California - alas, I heard about it too late. But I did record some of the audio from the conference because it was being broadcast live over the internet.

These pictures, found on Bobby Earle's blog page were the ones that inspired me the most. And Francis Chan is amazing.

Harrowing. Sad.

Victims

This is a great video. I wish I could go to that conference this week, but alas I found out too late.

Victims - Global Forum Promo from David Hepburn on Vimeo.

Chab Dai

When - not if, but when - I go to Cambodia, one of the places I will most definitely be visiting is the Chab Dai library in Phnom Penh. Chab Dai means "linked hands" in Khmer (language of Cambodia), and looks to be an amazing organization. If you go to their website, you can find some resources and you can download a pdf file that gives a list of recommended resources. There were several books and movies that I had not heard of, so I'm thinking that when I have some time, I'll be doing some searching for these resources.

I was talking with someone this week about human trafficking, and it fired me up again. I think that one of the reasons that we fail when it comes to acting on our beliefs and our passions is a lack of community. When we feel like we are the only one who cares about a cause - whether it be human trafficking, AIDS, etc. - I think our natural tendency is to think we can't make a difference. But when you find people who are like-minded and have the same convictions and want to do something about it, it helps keep you motivated. I'm hoping that this is the case and I'm excited about the possibilities that this meeting has created to make a difference in this area.