Helping Children Escape the Sex Trade

Rachel Lloyd, an escapee from the sex trade, wrote a book called Girls Like Us that tells about her experiences as a child sex worker.  She is also the founder of a program in New York that helps children survive sexual exploitation:  Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS).  Ms. Lloyd was recently a guest on the Diane Rehm Show discussing child exploitation.  You can listen to that interview or read the show's transcript here.

Moju Project: Selling Merchandise to Benefit Orphans

My name is Jessica Smith and I am the cofounder of MojuProject.com.
The Moju Project is a website where we sell t-shirts and other merchandise that save lives. Since our site launch in 2008 we have provided over 17,000 meals to orphans in Africa and have currently formed a new partnership to also shine a light on the subject of human trafficking.


Our heart is to be a voice for social injustices and to allow a way for people to make an easy and tangible difference just by the purchases that they make. We believe that we can truly change the world by changing the way we shop! By simply making the decision to use our buying power to make a difference we could easily see hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives being saved!


I may sound like an incredible optimist and idealist but just check out this fact:
Last year Threadless.com, a popular online t-shirt store, made over $30 million dollars in sales and generated $10 million dollars in profits- and that is just from the sales of t-shirts online…I can’t help but think what that kind of buying power could lend itself to if people started focusing on shopping that “gives back”!


As passionate lovers of Jesus our desire is take care of the orphans & widows, loose the chains of injustice, bring hope, restoration and healing to those who need it most, to unite the Church and to make the name of Jesus famous throughout the earth! We believe that Moju Project is a platform where we can help make this happen!


We believe with all of our hearts that Moju Project is a vision from the Lord and we are humbled that He has entrusted us with this.

jessica@mojuproject.com

Grace Landing First Annual Foster Care/Adoption Summit April 9 in Osceola Co.

Grace Landing, a mentoring ministry for young adults , is sponsoring their first annual foster care & adoption summit this Saturday, April 9, at Heartcry Chapel in Kissimmee, FL.  The main speaker for the summit is Doug Sauder from 4Kids in Ft. Lauderdale and author of The One Factor.  He is an amazing speaker and has so much to say about helping kids in the foster care system. You can go to www.gracelanding.com for more information and also to register.