Daniel Im

Pastor + Author

poverty

Ending Prostitution in Canada

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Click on the image above to see this amazing website that will resource you in partnering to end prostitution in Canada.

Below are my notes from a seminar that Glendyne Gerrard, the director of Women’s Ministry in the Mid West District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

  • Prostitution is violence against women
  • Prostitutes start young
  • 84% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children
  • Being abused seems to be a training ground for prostitution
  • First nations women are at the greatest risk in our country of being prostituted
    • 400 children were sexually exploited on the streets of Winnipeg last year
    • The youngest victim was 11
    • 84% of these children were aboriginal
  • Poverty is the number 1 reason women are forced into prostitution.
  • Abolition of prostitution is possible in our country!
  • Sweden demands to abolish prostitution

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blessings from God

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I just read an awesome and insightful entry by Pete Wilson, which you can check out here.

The following are my thoughts on a similar topic:

We are blessed. Having the technology, time, and money to access the internet and view this post means that you are blessed. I probably don’t even have to convince you regarding how much you are blessed. Just look at the clothes you’re wearing, the things in your house, the fact that you have a roof over your head, the people in your life, etc.

As a result, there are a few different types of people. There are those who don’t even consider themselves blessed, in comparison to others, and have this insatiable desire for more. These people don’t feel like they have enough as it is, and are always thinking about what else they could buy.

On the other hand, there are those who consider themselves blessed, but still want more regardless.

We hear and read about all the people in the world who are suffering. The fact that one child dies every five seconds from hunger related causes (that’s 16 000 children everyday). The fact that 12 million people have been orphaned by AIDS, across sub-Saharan Africa, by the end of 2005. The fact that 10.1 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday in 2005. And the fact that approximately 30 000 people go to bed hungry everyday.

Sure we read and hear about these facts, but is our heart moved? Are we compelled to act? Maybe…maybe not.

I believe that if we do the following and make a paradigm shift in our thinking, our actions will follow suit:

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