Sharing Web Resources

The organization that I chose to research was The Global Fund for Children. I initially tried to make contact with two professionals from another Country but had no success with this. I had also subscribed to the news letters from both the Global fund for Children and Save the Children. I have found a lot of very useful information about both of these organizations.

The Global fund for Children

On the Global fund for Children website I read many interesting articles. The first article, Human Trafficking Awareness Day: An Everyday Remembrance, spoke of how many children were  victims of  human trafficking.  “As we observe National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on January 11, it is important to remember that an estimated 20 million men, women, and children around the globe are still victims of human trafficking. According to the International Labor Organization, 5.5 million children and youth are subjected to forced labor, sexual and gender abuse, and other involuntary servitude and slavery-like conditions.” (Diallo, 2014)

The article 4 Steps to Freedom: How Community-Based Organizations Rescue Trafficked Children, spoke of the four steps in which this article pointed out would help stop trafficking was to reach out, rescue, recover, and Reintegrate. “It is hard to imagine how anyone could put a price tag on another person’s life, especially a child’s. Yet that is the reality for the millions of children worldwide who are bought and sold as commodities in the lucrative human trafficking industry.” (Fisher, 2014)

The last article, Giving a Voice to Ukraine’s Orphans, spoke of the Orphans in Ukraine. “One of the groups left behind in Ukrainian society, as in other former Soviet countries, is orphans. The Soviet Union passed along to the newly independent states like Ukraine a broken and outdated system of institutions to care for orphans and other vulnerable groups such as children living with disabilities. These institutions rarely allowed children to learn for themselves or gain responsibility, even as they grew older and closer to graduating from the equivalent of secondary school. Ukrainian orphans left their institutions as young adults with few life skills and little preparation for living in a society that mostly wanted nothing to do with them.” (Bednarek, 2013)

Within all of these articles I became more aware of all the things that are going on in this world that are often unsettling and bring sadness to mind.

Resources 

 

Bednarek, J. (2013, 12 16). Giving a Voice to Ukraine’s Orphans. Retrieved from Global Fund for Children: https://www.globalfundforchildren.org/giving-a-voice-to-ukraines-orphans/

Diallo, M. (2014, January 10). Human Trafficking Awareness Day: An Everyday Remembrance. Retrieved from Global fund for children: https://www.globalfundforchildren.org/human-trafficking-awareness-day-an-everyday-remembrance/

Fisher, J. (2014, 01 11). 4 Steps to Freedom: How Community-Based Organizations Rescue Trafficked Children. Retrieved from The Global Fund for Children: https://www.globalfundforchildren.org/4-steps-to-freedom-how-community-based-organizations-rescue-trafficked-children/