Finding freedom, justice, and restoration for children

Love Is Active

This past year, WHI’s Recovery Centre in Sierra Leone played a critical role in providing residential care for 40 survivors, while providing psychosocial, physical, and social support to 53 survivors in total.

Critical to the emotional healing process of trafficking survivors is their engagement in therapeutic care, including group and individual counseling, as well as life-skills training. Dominic, the Activities Director at the Recovery Centre and the only male caregiver on staff, has played a pivotal role in helping the girls—often abused at the hands of men—in realizing their full potential. Inspired by his faith in God and his training, Dominic has become an advocate in his own community for the safety of girls.

Hope House In The Ukraine

Since Ukraine’s independence, an estimated 120,000 young women have been trafficked from the Ukraine, mostly for the sex trade. One of the most vulnerable groups to trafficking are young women who are graduated from state-run orphanages at 16 years of age or who are living on the street.

WHI’s Hope House is a transition home for young women—a place to belong and learn life skills while completing education. Under the loving supervision of a house mother, 127 young women have completed the program since 2001, receiving life skills training and support to finish high school and college education. The need to provide a supportive spiritual environment for vulnerable children, especially girls, continues to be great in the Ukraine, and WHI’s work is critical.

Prevention Curriculum For Churches

Theological Importance

“I want my own family to love well, even people they’ve never known before,” Dominic shared. “That’s what this work with victims of trafficking has taught me— that what it means to love is active.” books?id=cnAAOuN2_JIC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=jews+death+by+drowning+romans+millstone&source=bl&ots=7rxpeBRBzl&sig=nPjXdyLbJmfpDmvaLLRD3Tz80IE&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=jews%20death%20by%20drowning%20romans%20millstone&f=false

WHI recently developed a prevention curriculum for pastors and congregants on Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC) for use in the Philippines. This training will provide people with the tools needed to protect children and recognize OSEC in their communities.