By: Marissa Gunther, Director of Growth Strategies, Shared Hope International As I prepared this announcement for Shared Hope’s Internet Safety Series, the children in your life were on my mind. And, transparently, I have a son of my own. He turned eight earlier this month. He is curious, creative, and energetic – imagine a walking, […]
Running Upstream: A Call to Action this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
By Marissa Gunther, Director of Growth Strategies, Shared Hope International Perhaps you’re familiar with the fable of the man and the river? The story is commonly told like this: A man sits peacefully on a grassy slope that rolls into a river’s edge, his family picnicking and playing nearby. As he listens to his children’s […]
The Smoke Screen That’s Obscuring the Voices of Survivors – Why We Must Amend the CDA
By: Alisa Bernard, Survivor Advocacy Coordinator, The Organization for Prostitution Survivors I am of the technology generation. I was born the same year the cell phone was invented and Macintosh Apple made its debut. I never knew a time when a computer was not an accessible tool. We live in a time where computers the size […]
Inspired to Give Back – Ambassador Spotlight
Karen Lambie felt driven to do something to “give back” to society after retiring from teaching. Her online research into children’s rights issues brought her across the sex trafficking of children. Like so many of the people in our audiences, she was shocked to discover its rampancy in the United States and in her own home state of […]
The Ripple Effect
Chifonne, one of our Ambassadors of Hope shares her story! When I first heard about sex trafficking, I was probably 12 years old. It was the very early days of Shared Hope, not long after Linda Smith had been to India, and she shared at a local event where my mom heard what Linda saw and […]
