The Pursuit

In pursuit of the unheard to be heard

This I Believe Is My Dream Job

           

Modern suburbia sickened me. Growing up in small town America, I thirsted for adventure. My heart longed to be in London, Paris, Beijing, Cairo, and basically anywhere but my half an acre, green grass suburban home. My palate held a voracious hunger for something bigger than living in, as Malvina Reynolds sings it so excellently, a little box made of ticky-tacky. I would dream as I went to sleep of adventures to Israel, South Africa, and Sydney. This, and a simple desire to make a difference in the world, led to my dream job: charity documentary reporter.

When I was in high school, I supported every charity I could find. I had the first pair of TOMS shoes, a charity that for every pair of shoes you purchase TOMS gives a pair to a child in need, in my school. In addition, I was treasurer of the Invisible Children club were we supported and brought attention to the abducted youth in Uganda forced to be childhood soldiers for the LRA: Lords Resistance Army. I helped sell “It’s a love Haiti relationship” shirts for the Haiti hurricane relief, and participated in many community service opportunities in my church and Boy Scouts.

Having this background of serving people, I have always had a desire to make a difference in the world and not simply fall into middle class, American suburban living. This ambition, coupled with my deep desire to connect with people and simply hear their stories, has led me to my dream job of a charity documentary reporter. My dream job is to become involved with a charity that is trying to end an injustice in the world, like human slavery, and help make documentaries for them. I wish to travel to these remote places where people have been robbed of their basic human rights and be their voice to the world.

When I see documentaries of children and adults in the sex-trade industry, my heart breaks for them. In their faces, I can see the longing in their hearts for someone to hear their story. This, I believe is my dream job. I dream to simply be with these people, hear their stories and share them with the world. People need to know that these injustices are happening and that change needs to occur. I believe I can help do that.

Unearthed strives to abolish sexual exploitation at its roots. Instead of “picking the fruit” and helping to save prostitutes, which is still an important and admirable cause, Unearthed strives to change the hearts of men. By abolishing men’s addiction to pornography and prostitution, Unearthed begins to decrease a demand for this industry and therefore saves these lives.

In addition, Unearthed shares the love of Christ with these people and helps to give them the real love they are searching for.

One Week, One Cause

That is Sevenly’s motto. Sevenly is an organization that makes apparel in order to help fund charity organizations that are trying to change the world but need a little wind in their sails. 

Each week Sevenly does something simple: make a design. For every week, there is a charity that Sevenly focuses on, and from this, they make apparel featuring that design and sell it to raise awareness, plus money, for this charity.

Each week apparel is sold, and each week lives are changed.

For every article of apparel sold, Sevenly donates $7 to the featured charity that week. However, there is a catch, Sevenly designs only last for a week, so you must purchase apparel within that week to own the design. 

Sevenly’s goal is to help get people involved with charities. Their website shows statistics that many people are aware of issues but few will simply give to them. Now, Sevenly is helping people to donate their social influence then their money to charities. 

Since Sevenly’s inception in July 2011, over 1.5 million dollars have been donated to charities in desperate need to help desperate people. 

Now, you can look cool, and help people save lives. Check out Sevenly’s website and join the cause, or causes I suppose.

www.sevenly.org/

End It Movement is a leading cooperation amongst non-profit organizations to help end slavery. Involving pledges, donations and media, End It Movement is helping bring slavery to the public by involving its biggest tool: you and me.

In Her Eyes

Compliments of Love 146“She stared out at us with a piercing gaze. There was a still fight left in her eyes.” ~ Rob Morris, President of Love 146

The sex trafficking industry is the second largest industry around the world. Millions of people are sold, willfully or unwillfully, into this industry each year. No matter their way of entrance, these people are lost, corrupt and despondent. Their minds are destroyed and mangled by the evil that steals them each night.

The good news, however, is that these people are being liberated. Abolitionists are invading these dark, destitute places and bringing freedom to these desperate souls.

This is where Love 146 steps in.

Love 146 serves to provide aftercare, prevention, and research for people that have escaped the sex trafficking industry. Their aftercare comes in forms of safe houses and the training of people to open individual safe houses around the world for the people.

Prevention is based around different programs that help spread the news of this industry in addition to preparing at risk youths with ways to avoid getting abducted. For example, in Europe, Love 146 publishes a magazine that warns youth about strategies used to abduct youth.

Lastly, research is used to find better ways to rehabilitate youth back into society by giving them vocations and how to counsel them. Also, Love 146 researches ways to provide more safe houses and better care for people escaping the sex industry.

You can get involved in three main ways: the first is tell the story of Love 146 and what they strive for, second is to form a Task Force that spreads awareness in the community and raises money annually and last, Love 146 encourages you to become a partner by giving money to the program to help save lives.

Rob Morris and others were in a brothel alongside other predators staring at little girls in little, red dresses with numbers pinned to them for identification. These girls looked like shells of what used to be an innocent, vibrant child. Their youth had been stolen time and night again; however, there was one, 146, that still had the fire in her. She stared boldly through the glass at Rob and his company. She still had life. These are the girls 146 is in pursuit of. You can join them too.

http://love146.org/

Epicenter

Epicenter: The point of the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake ~ Merriam-Webster dictionary


Epicenter is the beginning of change. Earthquakes shake, tremble, and destroy the land; they forever alter the surface of the Earth. In their wake, destruction follows and change must begin. Many lives are altered and left destitute, mangled and devastated. This change is of a magnitude few can comprehend and only a few can empathize with. However, this change gives birth to new.

At the epicenter, something happens. Something clicks and changes the land, people, economy and government of wherever this earthquake began. Though everything is destroyed, the human spirit is left naked and exposed to what it truly is. This spirit is something I believe is forced to care for people and bring comfort, security and love to those who need it. 

This epicenter is what I’m in the pursuit of. To find the stories, organizations, and ways to be at the epicenter of change. Each person can play their role in this earthquake that can change lives forever; I hope to take you there.

Silence of innocence

Silence of innocence