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Today, 400 million people will struggle to find decent food, clothing, or shelter. 27 million will have to live as modern-day slaves (if their lives can even be called "living"). Because of poverty and debt, families are stuck in servitude for countless generations, with no hope of ever being free. And because of corrupt local officials and an uninformed public, nothing will be done about it. In India, some of the poverty-stricken women are forced into prostitution to support themselves. Others are trafficked from foreign countries or off the streets and into brothels. It is estimated that 70% of these women are HIV-positive, and 40% of them are girls under the age of 18. It costs $1000 to free one of these women from the hands of their oppressors. The Christian Youth Fellowship of CBCOC is working with the International Justice Mission to raise money to free 100 of these girls and women. We are going to raise $100,000. |
| The International Justice Mission is a non-profit Christian organization devoted to fighting oppression and abuse around the world. They send legally trained professionals to free victims of injustice and oppression through emergency relief, structural prevention, and victim care. CYF is raising $100,000 for IJM to legally free 100 women and girls from forced prostitution. |
| CYF (Christian Youth Fellowship) is the high school fellowship group of CBCOC in Anahiem, CA. All CYF is about is loving God and loving others. |
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Eugene Kim - anna_gene(at)yahoo.com Scott Eng - scottee(at)ocf.berkeley.edu Peter Liu - peterliu(at)caltech.edu Geoff Kutnick - gkutnick(at)csulb.edu Lydia Cheung - lydiaeng(at)gmail.com IJM - contact(at)ijm.org |
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It's sometimes hard to believe the injustice in the world. Find out for yourself if the facts really add up. * "No Mercy Report" - On Child Labor and Forced Prostitution in India * Reserach Center for Polaris Project * "Global Trafficking in Women" - Modern Day Slavery and the Movement to End it * The Quest for Hope in Slum Communities - World Vision article on illegal prostitution in San Diego * Trafficking in Persons Report - Official US report on modern day slavery and slave trading. * Cambodia Report - Protection Project report. * India Report - Protection Project report. |
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December 19, 2005 New Cash Wash material for February 25, 2006. Instructions General Flyer Intro Sheet Sponsor Sheet Also, since this project is maturing and as our members are growing, we are no longer officially part of CYF (as many of us have graduated already). Instead, we have started the Justice League, made up of a smaller group of people, devoted to bringing the Raise 100 to Free 100 to completion until the year 2009. |
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What can be done: *Prayer *Having a heart for the oppressed *Educating ourselves, and others *Recycling *Garage sales *Fasting *Snowcone sales *Donating loose change *Car washes *Getting other youth groups involved *Appealing to senators/city mayors/state officials *Appealing to celebrities |
| Micah 6:8 - "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To seek justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Isaiah 1:17 - "...seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow." 1 Cor. 13:6 - "[Love] does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth." 1 Tim. 4:12 - "Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity." 1 Cor. 27 - "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, the weak things of the world to shame the strong; the lowly and despised, and the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are." More verses... |
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