{"id":4370,"date":"2015-10-01T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outofashes.org\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2015-10-01T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:43","slug":"untouchables-bondage-in-the-sextrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofashes.org\/sv\/untouchables-bondage-in-the-sextrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Untouchables – Bondage in the sextrade"},"content":{"rendered":"
Down memory lane<\/span><\/h5>\n

I have been looking at some photos and reading letters from when we started the work among from the Badi people. This letter below is from October 2009 six years ago and part of the memory lane. How insignificant it started\u2026 With just the desire to prevent small girls from being pushed into prostitution and today we look in the rear-view mirror and are amazed. \/ H\u00e5kan G<\/span><\/p>\n

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Singapore 6 October 2009<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear friends,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Another month has gone by and we look back to a great month. Thank you every one who came and joined us\u00a0for our 15th\u00a0Anniversary and made it to a special occasion for all of us in Touching Asia.\u00a0It was truly a night of\u00a0embracing His Kingdom, His heart, His call and His vision for nations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Badi \u2013 bondage in the sex trade\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

Our new focus concerns a ministry to an unreached people group \u2013 to save young girls from ending up being\u00a0sold as sex slaves or as bonded labour. For over a year I have been praying and thinking about human trafficking,\u00a0and when I was in Nepal in February, the Lord really touched me deeply as I heard about and encountered some\u00a0situations that I thought were disturbing. I wrote about it in the June Update. The plans have now matured and\u00a0we are ready to get the ball rolling.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first visit in one of the Badi villages together with Raju Sundas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Badi people are Dhalits,\u00a0untouchables, and one of the\u00a0most marginalized groups in the Nepali society. The\u00a0vast majority are landless being born into a life of extreme poverty, without education, health\u00a0care and social\u00a0statues. But the most appalling is the fact that most girls and women, mothers and\u00a0daughters, are forced to\u00a0involve in selling their bodies to earn a living.\u00a0Children and young women are also for\u00a0example often tricked\u00a0and sold\u00a0off in bogus marriages and used by their \u2018husband\u2019 or master to\u00a0earn a\u00a0good profit for them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One man Raju met had four \u2018wives\u2019. The last one (being only sixteen years old) he sent to one of the\u00a0Middle Eastern\u00a0nations to work in the sex\/flesh trade. Another girl we met on this trip was only sixteen\u00a0years old but was already\u00a0a mother of two children.\u00a0She was \u2018married\u2019 off when she was ten years old\u00a0and became pregnant, and at sixteen\u00a0she now already has two children. She looked so innocent, sweet\u00a0and beautiful, but every day she has to go to the\u00a0nearest city to get customers.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

These are only two\u00a0examples of so many, innocent girls meeting the same\u00a0fate.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We visited one of the Badi villages and met many mothers and children and saw their extreme poverty and social\u00a0statues. As I looked at the small girls\u00a0I realized that most of them, if not all, will in a few years\u2019 experience the\u00a0same thing; to be abused and exploited to have sex with old men. It’s\u00a0sickening to see and\u00a0hear\u00a0about\u00a0this exploitation. Imagine being born into this situation; and\u00a0this not just for a short\u00a0time but this\u00a0is your life.\u00a0You are bound and destined from birth to this kind of life\u00a0because of poverty\u00a0and your cast.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I feel so angry\u00a0towards this injustice and\u00a0I feel broken when I think about the girls and the mothers. They want to\u00a0break with this curse and they want their children to get a better life. We are now ready to\u00a0begin to\u00a0help them by\u00a0starting a home for girls. This might be the first of several, I have no idea, but one thing I do know. Our vision is to:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n