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Awareness Day Wall

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This information was directly transferred from The Destiny Rescue official Australian website

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Do you need more information? Take a firsthand look at what they do daily.

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Shot by Corey Sleap. Edited by Ryan Chamley. Check out www.destinyrescue.org

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Click here to Sponsor a Child through Destiny Rescue!

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Destiny Rescue's Child Sponsorship Program is designed to help prevent as many children as possible from entering the sex-trade and offer hope, stability and unconditional love to children that have endured its deadly sting.

For as little as $48 AUD a month, you can support a Prevention Child and help save his or her life. Your monthly gift will provide a child a hand up and a chance to dream again...a chance to fulfil his or her God-given destiny.

Child Sponsorship donations are tax-deductible.
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Sponsor a Prevention Child - Destiny Rescue Australia

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Destiny Rescue's Child Sponsorship Program is designed to help prevent as many children as possible from entering the sex-trade and offer hope, stability and unconditional love to children that have endured its deadly sting. For as little as $48 AUD a month, you can support a Prevention Child and help save his or her life.

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Neelah is only 5 years old, but has suffered much abandonment, pain and abuse in her young life. Neelah was raised in a poor Cambodian village with her parents and younger sister. A year ago, Neelah’s mother left her family to find a house keeping job in Malaysia, but she has since gone missing. It is believed that she may have been tricked by a ‘domestic help’ trafficking organisation, and it’s unlikely that she will be found. During this time, Neelah’s father got re-married and gave his youngest daughter away to another family because he didn’t want to care for her. Neelah missed her mother and sister very much and was often neglected by her father. During the Chinese New Year celebration, a man from the village grabbed Neelah, covered her mouth so no one could hear her scream, and raped her until she was unconscious. The next day, the same man found Neelah with her 10 year old friend, Channa, playing together and took them both and raped them. The man threatened violence to the girls if they told anyone. Eventually, the evil truth was revealed to Neelah’s aunty who notified the police immediately. Neelah’s father refused to see or talk to his scared and traumatized daughter, so Neelah was taken to a safe home. Last week, Neelah and Channa came to live at one of Destiny Rescue’s aftercare rescue homes. Both girls started home schooling and are really settling well into their new home and family. Our staff feels privileged to overflow their young hearts with love and hope. Investigations and prosecutions are underway to bring the child sex offender to justice.

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Fon and Ling are cousins from Burma and are both 14 years old. They were sent to Thailand to work in the karaoke bar owned by an aunt. Fon came to earn money to pay off her family’s debt and Ling, to help support the care of her disabled brother. Neither Fon nor Ling could speak or understand Thai.

Not long after starting work for their aunt, she began to prostitute them. They brought in good income for the uncaring woman who was meant to be their guardian. The girls were regularly forced to have sex with men they did not know and could not understand.

They could not communicate with anyone to ask for help. They were locked into a silent nightmare of isolation caused by their age, being so far from home, the language barrier and the violations that were perpetrated against them.

Shame, disbelief and shocking depression were a constant. This was their reality – their daily nightmare. Then Destiny Rescue showed up.

Fon and Ling were rescued by Destiny Rescue in late 2012 and have been living in a Destiny Rescue home since then. Here they receive love, sustenance and emotional support. Fon has been very quick to respond and adjust to living at Destiny Rescue. Ling, however, has been slower to trust. Both girls will have access to ongoing counseling, education and valuable vocational training as they continue to go through healing of their bodies, souls, and minds.

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This wall is for Christian Outreach College Toowoomba Awareness Day, 2013

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Destiny Rescue has expanded to begin rescue over six countries, along with Australia and the US involved in office. Already, they have saved hundreds of people, and with your help, plan to expand to the whole world and eliminate sex slavery forever.

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Nok’s father died when she was two, and her mother was unable to get government support to help her look after Nok and her brothers. They suffered great poverty.

To get government support in Thailand, you must hold the correct paperwork. To get this, you must have proof of birth in Thailand, which is often impossible for hill tribe families who live remotely or who have crossed the border illegally to live in Thailand, fleeing from poverty. The paperwork is also expensive and difficult to attain, making it out of the realm of possibility for many villagers, and so they eke out an existence, barely subsisting.

Nok always felt that her mother was angry and very critical. Perhaps the stress of making ends meet day after day was responsible for her mother’s moods. Nok, now 17 years old, remembers her mother as someone that could never say something loving or encouraging. She became very angry at herself and at a young age became distant from her mother. Yet, as is the way with hurting children, Nok always wanted a close relationship with a mother that was gentle and kind.

By 15 years of age, Nok had left home with a fractured relationship with her mother and brothers. There are few employment opportunities in Thailand for young girls with little education, so Nok started working in a karaoke bar, seeing it as her only option for survival. Here she was taken advantage of and soon forced into brothel work.

Nok learned to hate the men that abused her and became increasingly angry. She practiced kickboxing and fighting in her spare time, always seeking to prepare herself for self-defense.

Nok had been so wounded as a child and now she was being physically, sexually and mentally destroyed in the karaoke bars.

She began to groom herself like a boy. She cut her beautiful long black hair so short that it was difficult to tell her gender.

The lack of a loving relationship with her mother and her hatred towards men, soon found Nok ‘choosing’ to become what Thais call a ‘Tom’ – a lesbian.

She was rescued at 17 and came to live in the safety of a Rescue Home. She attended counselling groups for girls dealing with trauma. Some girls did not know Thai and were unable to express themselves about the damage done to them. Nok, who speaks three languages, became their voice. She was kind and patient with the girls; she listened and tried her best to help them tell their stories. She became like the kind and gentle mother she had never had.

Nok began the path to healing and soon gained the respect of the girls and staff that she lived with; however, she seemed locked in her male personae. She actively resisted living life as a female. She was lovingly accepted by all the staff for who she was.

In one of the group sessions, Nok talked about her own anger toward her mother for hating her and making her feel so unloved and lonely. Nok made a choice to forgive her mother and all the men that had abused her. She cried out in pain; her stony heart was broken open to expose the tender flesh of love inside. That was a transforming moment for Nok. Her life has changed since then.

Nok has become a flower opening; she is growing her hair long again and the boy clothes are being slowly replaced. She continues to bless all the girls that she lives with.

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In order to ensure safety for the Rescued Children, information has been edited. Pictures may not be the people portrayed.

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Consider two precious friends, 12 year old -Meesa and 15 year old – Fa. They were recently rescued by one of our rescue teams from a life of forced prostitution. Both girls, who were best friends from an early age, grew up in the same hill tribe village. Yet despite their closeness, each had completely different upbringings. Fa, the older girl, had a step-father that was very abusive toward her and her mother. She remembers being extremely afraid of him because he often beat her mercilessly. Obviously, it was clear that he didn’t like her; so in an attempt to make her life even more miserable, he sold her to a man looking for young girls to employ at his karaoke bar/ brothel two to three hours away. Believing that she was getting away from her evil step-father for a better life and thinking she had a chance to work in a respectable restaurant, Fa jumped at the opportunity. And because she was so excited, she invited her best friend, Meesa, to join her in this new adventure. Meesa grew up in a Christian family with parents that genuinely loved her. She felt valued and accepted and was eager to experience life to the fullest. At some point, Meesa’s father, who was getting older and was the main breadwinner in the family, injured his leg, which kept him from being able to work. This put much financial strain on their family, and over time, they became extremely poor. So poor in fact, they couldn’t even afford to fix the damaged roof on their one room house. Every time it rained, which in rainy season is every day, they would get drenched, feeling cold and miserable. They also had very little food, which caused them to become malnourished, and their lack of resources afforded each of them only one or two sets of clothing with holes all through them. Meesa’s mother eventually lost all hope that things could change. Each day was a test of survival. Now imagine for a moment, Meesa desperately wanting to help her family make it through this difficult hardship. She was hoping and praying for an opportunity to assist her family in some way financially. Then all of a sudden, her best friend comes offering her a job to go work with her in a respectable restaurant a couple of hours away. Without even thinking twice, she immediately said, “yes!”Soon after the girls arrived at the restaurant, the man who had offered them the decent job showed them around the place, and then escorted them to their living quarters at the back of the building. Moments later, they were taken to a shack behind the restaurant where they were put into a room with a young man approximately 17 years old. He forced off their clothes and made the two innocent girls do disgusting sexual acts to each other, while he watched. He then proceeded to violently rape the older girl and then the younger one. The younger girl who was a Christian prayed to God with all her might for Him to rescue the two of them as her abuser continued to rape her. These beautiful little girls had been tricked, lied to and lured into the sex-trade. Their dignity, virginity and precious innocence had been stolen from them. Two days later, the brothel owner sent the girls home until they were healed enough to return to work because their little bodies were so physically damaged from the man that assaulted and raped them. Fortunately, these girls were familiar with Destiny Rescue because they had friends that were residing in one of our Thailand Rescue Homes. At once, Meesa and Fa, who were completely petrified, called Destiny Rescue for help. We were able to quickly organize a rescue team to go to their village and liberate them from their horrible situation. Now these precious girls are in one of our Rescue Homes, where they are safe and secure. Their hearts are both filled with extreme gratitude because they have been shown such genuine love and acceptance by our staff and the other children in our care. Each day, they take large strides toward restoration and wholeness. Moreover, Fa, who was Buddhist, said that she wanted to become a Christian after seeing Meesa pray to Jesus for help and deliverance and observing how quickly her prayers were answered! She realized how real and caring Meesa’s God was, and she wanted a personal relationship with Him for herself!

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Let me share with you a story of one of the girls rescued by Destiny Rescue in 2012. Moylee’s story is not unique, though it is full of hope now that she has encountered a God of love, and a Destiny family to embrace her: Moylee, like many little girls, adored her daddy. When he died, her heart broke and the world around her began to crumble. Moylee and her mother lived in extreme poverty, in a culture that renders women and girls significantly dependent on men. When her father died, Moylee’s mother re-married in order to survive. Moylee was around 8 years old. Not long into the marriage, Moylee’s step-father became a violent alcoholic and a drug user. Again, in order to survive, Moylee’s mother made the only choice that she felt she had, and became a slave to earn enough money to keep her new husband in his drug habit. In her desperation, the mother worked long hours and was often away from the home. While her mother was away, Moylee was consistently raped by her stepfather. As a result of the rape, she became pregnant at the age of 13. To save face, Moylee’s stepfather sold her in marriage to an older man, who treated her terribly and raped her violently. In this environment, young Moylee gave birth to her stepfather’s son. A few years later, through the continual raping of her husband, she became pregnant again. Her husband treated Moylee and her newborn in a cruel manner and eventually decided he didn’t want them anymore. Much like her mother, Moylee made the only choice she felt she had in order to save herself, her child and unborn baby: she ran away from her husband. With no other options to support herself, she soon fell into prostitution. Moylee was rescued by Destiny Rescue in a brothel when she was approximately 16 years old. Soon after she arrived, she gave birth to her second beautiful little boy. However, although her environment had changed, her three year old son remained distant from her, and angry. Moylee believed that her son was evil because he was conceived in rape by her stepfather, and therefore, could not hold him and suffered guilt that she could not love him as she felt she should. Through prayer with a Destiny Rescue counsellor, Moylee met Jesus. The look on her face changed, and it was clear that something wonderful had happened in her heart. Following prayer, Moylee was eager to run and hold her son in a warm embrace for the first time. This beautiful family is now on the road to healing. It is our hope today that Moylee’s story would linger with you, like a fragrance behind the many statistics, to remind you that each number is a story. We work to save the ‘one’ and bring her home.

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Paris Stiller, Killian Doyle, Rumbi Chadyiwa, Aleisha Smart, Jemma Hunt, Emma Shepherd, Ethnee Furness, Debra Kayira, Oliver Brown, Jacob Thomae, Monique Wilms, Daniel Neville, Dominic Purcell, Alexia Waite, Chris Forsyth, Bethany Paulo

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Be the reason 100,000+ children are saved by 2020. Help Destiny Rescue achieve and exceed their goal of eliminating sex slavery in our generation.

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ABOUT . . .

Destiny Rescue is an organization committed to saving sexually abused and enslaved children internationally.

THERE ARE CURRENTLY 27 MILLION PEOPLE ENSLAVED IN TRAFFICKING WORLDWIDE
Destiny Rescue has already saved hundreds from sexual abuse and sex trade, and raised awareness to a million more. Volunteers and agents of destiny rescue work day and night to save the helpless, rescue the lost, and bring hope and power to dream again.

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WE RESTORE

If Rescue is the starter's gun, then Restoration is the marathon. This is where the long yet joyful healing process begins. Rescued children are taken to safe houses where they sleep safely, receive education, vocational training, counseling and healthcare, spiritual guidance and, most importantly, love.

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Destiny Rescue, Ending child trafficking & sexual exploitation

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If Rescue is the starter's gun, then Restoration is the marathon. This is where the long yet joyful healing process begins. Rescued children are taken to safe houses where they sleep safely, receive education, vocational training, counseling and healthcare, spiritual guidance and, most importantly, love.