Oct 2008 Supporter Update

When we speak of AIM’s efforts to prevent the sexual trafficking of girls and women our words most often focus in one of two areas. One—Equipping the local Cambodian church as God’s agent to take a stand against the traffickers and abusers. Two—The use of community centers, such as Rahab’s House, to bring transformation to trafficking hotspots like Svay Pak. In the next couple of months we’ll be sharing some stories of God’s work in these areas, but today we’d like to share about another means of prevention.

That means of prevention…the heroic efforts of girls from Agape Restoration Center (ARC), our aftercare center for sexually trafficked and abused girls. Theirs might be the most courageous and sacrificial of all efforts. Their efforts take place as they stand before their abusers and perfect strangers in a courtroom to testify in detail about the abuse they have suffered. The following article from the LA Times is but one example of their efforts both in Cambodia and the US.

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There is another means of prevention we can all take part in…awareness. We will be forever grateful for each of you and your encouragement and support. Still we’d like to ask even more. We ask that you would passionately and often share stories about what is happening here in Cambodia. You can find many additional stories on the AIM website www.aim4asia.org, under “News.”

“Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself; it is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous. A silent justification, it makes possible an evil erupting as an exception becoming the rule and in turn accepted.” Abraham Joshua Heschel

Thank you again for the blessing and encouragement you are to thousands in Cambodia.

In Jesus’ love,

The AIM Team

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