Child protection for children most at risk

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What can you do to protect a child who is vulnerable and powerless to change the situation they are in?

Many children fall prey to human traffickers looking for a child to exploit. Some children are born without a birth certificate and that makes them an easy target for human trafficking. Children are often approached with promising jobs in another city or country, only to be sold to a brothel, or forced into heavy labor, or even made into a child soldier and many other unthinkable situations. For a few cows or appliances a young girl can be sold into early marriage to a man 3 times her age.

So now that we know all this what can we do?

World Vision works with local hospitals, schools, community leaders, faith communities and law enforcement agencies to ensure child protection is a priority. In the country of Bangladesh alone World Vision is providing 20 safe places for children to go after school where they are nurtured and off the streets where they can be protected from the sex industry going on around them. There is no way out of their environment without these programs.

Here are some ways you can help this Christmas...

Consider sponsoring a child at risk of exploitation  http://www.worldvision.org/sponsor-child?campaign=226220126

Donate to programs that are already at work to support these kids http://donate.worldvision.org/ways-to-give/by-category/where-most-needed

Pray for staff and law makers for the work that they are doing http://www.worldvision.org/our-impact/child-protection

Share some stories to make sure their stories are always brought to light and never left in the darkness again.

Everyday butterflies

"Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet become something beautiful." - Unknown. 

 "Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose"

I love to embroider on nice linen or silk and thought I would give a try on a muslin fabric; a fabric used for common purposes.  Personally, I found that it is easier to work with silk and linen fabrics because the fabric works with you to create your design.  The fabric shows though, adding to your work, where the muslin only shows what you added to it.

These butterflies are embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a common cloth and is already sold.

God is still working in ordinary people.  He specializes in taking the commonplace and weaving it into a thing of beauty.  The butterfly is a good visual reminder of the work He wants to do in us. 

 Freedom and beauty in joyous colors that dance across the summer sky.

Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.
 Ezekiel 27:7