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NightLight Foundation
http://www.nightlightinternational.comVolunteer Opportunities: Yes
History
Our local offices build relationships with victims of commercial sexual exploitation and those who are at-risk and provide hope, intervention, rescue, and assistance by offering alternative vocational opportunities, life-skills training, and physical, emotional, and spiritual development to those seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men, and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.
In Bangkok, Nightlight operates as a business (NightLight Design, Co. Ltd) and a non-profit (NightLight Foundation). In the United States, NightLight operates as a 501c3 with branches in Atlanta, Branson, and Los Angeles.
Mission
"NightLight is an international organization compelled by love to reach out to, rescue, and restore all those who are negatively impacted by sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.”
- Contact Information:
- PO Box 93803
- Atlanta, Georgia 30377
- United States
- Active In: United States, Thailand
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Aftercare, Empowerment, Rescue, Prosecution
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking
- Additional Locations:
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- PO Box 1414, Nana Post Office
- Bangkok, Bangkok
- Thailand
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- P.O. Box 1012
- Springfield, Missouri 65801
- United States
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- PO Box 1084
- Pasadena, California 91102
- United States
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- 336 36th St., #814
- Bellingham, Washington 98225
- United States
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Child Exploitation: How Old or How High?
Watching the six-year-old walk in my heart rose in my chest, and I felt a sickening feeling in my stomach. I looked at the trafficker, his eyes had narrowed with a glint of cruelty in them; he was all business now.
The Myth of Abduction
The stereotype has been influenced by the movie Taken, which brought awareness to the issue of sex trafficking but also left people thinking that trafficking is white women bring kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder.