July 20th – August 3rd 2008
A Samaritan Group Fact Finding Mission
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING

In late 2007 and early 2008, Colonel V. Doner began asking leading questions of colleagues and co-workers and funding / initiating research to discover how effective action could be taken to expand his commitment to supporting the victims of Human Trafficking.

Several months of groundbreaking research, networking and initiating communication with a wide range of NGO’s Functioning in the Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand, crystallized into an itinerary of scheduled visitations to projects and service providers in these three countries over an 11 day period. >>More

Welcome to Asia: The World’s Brothel
by Monte E. Wilson

I have held Ethiopian children in my arms that died of starvation and disease only moments later. I have spoken with men and women who lost arms or legs during bombing raids in South Sudan, and watched these same people boiling tree leaves, hoping for some sort of nutrition to give their children. I have spoken to Filipino pastors who were tortured by Muslims because they refused to renounce their Faith. I have witnessed battles in the Philippine Provinces where the New People’s Army cut down innocent men, women and children. I thought nothing could match the horror of what I had already seen … until I saw 12 and 13 year-old girls being forced to sell their bodies. >>More

To read more about Monte’s Asia trip, click here.

Children Living in Garbage Dumps and child sex trafficking as seen through the eyes of an 18 year old CJ Doner

By Brant Doner – 18 years old

This past summer a coalition of charities including Children’s Hunger Relief Fund journeyed to various countries in Asia in order to verify and inspect funded projects as well as possible future projects. The main theme throughout non-profit work in Asia is battling the massive sex slavery issue, which is estimated by the United Nations to have four million children and women involved. My journal is a day-by-day account of the projects, countries and people which we met along the way of trying to help with one of the world’s most heartbreaking tragedies. >>More

To read CJ’s journal, click here.

ETHIOPIA:“The Stench of Death Was Everywhere”

Over 2.18 million people now need emergency assistance to survive. Because of the effect that water shortages have had on crops and pastureland, Ethiopia has requested assistance to meet the nutritional needs of people in six of the country’s nine states.

UNICEF estimates six million Ethiopian children under the age of five are at risk of malnutrition and more than 120,000 have only about a month to live. More>>

SOMALIA: A country with no government where war and drought push people to the breaking point

Due to the lack of any clear leadership, Somalia is one of the most difficult and insecure regions in the world for humanitarian groups to work in. Many aid agencies have withdrawn from Somalia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without assistance. Our team finally managed to enter Somalia in April. Help is desparately needed. More>>

The latest from Darfur - the UK’s Independent calls it

“Darfur’s return to hell"

"Children raped. Homes looted. Villages torched. And thousands forced to flee aerial bombings – three months after UN took over peacekeeping”

For the complete article and a first-hand report from our team in the field, please click here>>

How Love Saved Four Children

Susan, Sarah, Simon and Michael are four remarkable children at the Samaritan Center in Kenya. Each were either orphaned or abandoned and have experienced unimaginable horrors at very young ages. More>>