Soul Survivor
Registered charity number 1080720
On JustGiving since Aug 2007
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Why your donation matters
Around the world, in forgotten places, freedom is being stolen. People like us are being sold. Sold to work long hours for money they never see. Sold to lose their innocence in brothels. Sold simply because they are poor and have no other option.
An estimated 27 million people around the world are slaves. It’s not their fault. But we’re not just concerned with slavery. One billion people live on less than a dollar a day. Poverty is reducing their options and freedom too. Without money the choice of a good education, decent healthcare and opportunities for work are reduced.
Poverty is steals freedom and God Is calling us to use the freedom we have to abolish modern day slavery and do what we can to help those living in poverty.
Case study: donations in action
Meet Chica Chica’s story is common. She was just 14 when she became a slave. Her family were from Cambodia. Her Dad, unemployed because he’d been injured by an old landmine, sold her to a bar owner across the border in Thailand. The money he gained meant he could afford to feed his other younger children and send them to school. Chica’s sale was not an easy choice.
Chica was sold. But she’s not a product. She’s a person, created by God to have freedom; freedom that has been stolen.
Chica managed to run away. She made it back into Cambodia, but that’s not the end. With no money, job, skills or training she could – like many others - have ended up as a sex worker if it wasn’t for the work of Soul Action partner Cho. Thanks to their efforts Chica now lives in a safehouse and is learning some basic sewing skills. Cho are helping her to learn a trade, making sure she has the choice and freedom to define her own future.
