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Last week my school presented all us students with what we call International Focus Week, where most classes are cancled on a specific day and other hour long seminars are set in their place. We are able to choose any of the classes we want. One class that I chose was entitled simply "Sex Trafficking. In no way was I fully ready for what I was going to hear.
The professor was so pasionate about this subject that it was hard not to connect. As he retold some stories that he exerienced himself and had heard from others my heart was drawn out to those being abused in these situations. The class focused on the young boys being exploited. Often we forget that it's not just young girls being sold and abused. 30% of the children involved in the trafficking are boys under the age of 16, some, are only infants. I heard stories that broke my heart and made me angry. Angry not only at the people who choose to do that to children, but also at myself, who at that time was sitting in an air conditioned room and had no idea this was even going on. When the speaker was asked what was being done to help these boys the answer was less than satisfactory. He told us a story he heard from a police officer that participated in a raid on a trafficking home. The officer explained that during that raid, he went in and grabbed as many girls as he could, but when he found a young boy, he was forced to leave him behind, because he had absolutely no where to take him or any of the other boys. There are homes set up for girls, but not for boys.
I remember looking around, after that news was announced, at my classmates and seeing the look of devistation and heartache on their faces. Again it was asked what could be done to help. My teacher then said that to help these boys, they need people who are in it for the long haul. they need couples to take them in, adopt them (most of the children can't go back home because of saftey, or in some sad cases the parents sold them), they need men to show them what a Godly man looks like, a woman who will love them in the appropriate way, and they deffinitly need counsalors to help them understand and get through it.
To end the class, the proffessor told us of a site that is involved and working to help these boys. blackboxinternational.org. On Black Box International it has ways that you can help in your own way, whether it be donating money to help those on the field or fully get your hands in there. After that class some people told me thats where they felt that God was calling them to go. To help those boys that cant help themselves. I know God is watching over them, I can't say what He has in store but I have faith and trust in my Lord to know that something is going to be done. As his hands and feet we are encouraged to help these boys, and to see the end of these stories.
