The Problem Now Has A Face

Yesterday was somewhat of a jolting reminder of conditions overseas.  We have heard about child trafficking.  We have been horrified and grieved, of course. But until yesterday,child slavery never had a face. Today, it does. We know this child.

This update is from John's blog....

I was talking to Emma a few hours ago. She had spent the day with Sergey and Anya today. They were traveling around checking up on the different projects that we are involved with . One of the stops brought them to a small village where we help with a young boy we knew from one of the orphanages. The orphanage closed, so he went to live with his Grandmother.

Today when they stopped in to see him. he was not there .. they did some asking around and found out some terrible news.. From what we can gather, the Grandmother had a stroke, and our young friend went to live with relatives that were drinkers... They decided to sell him to a family that took him to Kazakhstan to work for them.. He was sold for 100 som..thats about $2.25 . What do you do with that ?

We are now trying to get any information we can about where he was taken and any information we might be able to use to find him, but there is not a good history with cooperation from the Kazakh government, and this is a common thing. As soon as we can find any thing, we will figure out what to do next, but we can't just leave him there...

This inhumane tragedy has a face of a 11 year old boy, who before all of this happened, suffered from pretty serious tramua-related events.  We saw it in his drawings and his behavior.  We can only wonder now what more is happening to him. 

JUST IN.....visit the Wright blog for an update    http://www.actofkindness.blogspot.com/