Written by Lauren Jekowsky and Oliver Kaplan: The recent kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is putting the spotlight on the problem of human trafficking in Nigeria, a scourge that has existed for some time and reaches far beyond Boko Haram. Nigeria is currently ranked as a “Tier 2” country…
Last August, I experienced a Mother’s Day unlike any other. In Thailand, the people celebrate Mother’s Day on the queen’s birthday. It just happened to fall on the week that my daughter and I ventured to Thailand with Rescue 1 Global. On Mother’s Day, we arose to attend a church service. Upon arriving, there sat a…
Mark Rempel’s testimony and experience as a participant on one of the R1G Thailand trips on Mother’s Day last August is moving and powerful. He understands that when a child does not have the nurturing bond of a mother, there will be a certain void only a mother can fill. As a child, Mark never knew his…
Written by Audra Haney. Read her blog here. – If you scroll Facebook or any other form of social media today, you’ll see a lot of people sporting a red X on their hands today…and it couldn’t thrill me more! Today is the “End It” Movement’s “Shine a Light on Slavery” Day for the 27 million trapped…
People are surprised when they discover my passion for fighting human trafficking. I am not sure why. Perhaps because they know my background: I have no secret story, no hidden skeletons lurking from my past. I was not abused in any way when I was a child. In fact, I was blessed with a stable…
It’s easy to forget Easter means more than family dinners and egg hunts. When we remember the story of Christ and His resurrection, we think of it as a Bible story worth celebrating. Rarely, do we think to live out what it means. During this joyful season, we often forget that there are four-year-old…
There are so many stories. So many tales of loss and devastation, but now so many stories of hope. In the picture above is a young girl named Maa and her two siblings. While doing VBS in their local village, with the No More mission team; R1G founders Lacy and Daniel Tolar, along with the…
We have been franticly busy the last few months with meeting after meeting, training after training, mobilizing after mobilizing, phone call after phone call, and email after email. You see the word is out! Trafficking is real, people really are being forced against their will to do things that no one deserves to do. Since,…
So as far as I can tell, blogs are supposed to be honest…So here goes. Honestly, my day has put the C in crazy and it is only 9:30 in the morning, and let me tell you that crazy is what my agenda is serving up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner today. There’s the three kids…and did I…
We want to thank the U.S. Senate for designated January 11th as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and President Obama for declaring January Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Although, this is good and a step in the right direction, we believe that THIS IS NOT ENOUGH! So, Rescue 1 Global invites you to join in with our team…
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