"Love is the only rational act."-Levine
Love146 got into my heart instantly as I red the stories of the children, at the same time was stabbed in the heart because those children were exposed in the issue of child trafficking and sex slavery at an early age. We all know that the main reason why they are sold in to slavery is poverty. These children are the ones carrying the burden themselves. I, myself can't picture the ones who sold them, threatened them and used them. Love146 really is a good, good organization. Now I'm eager to spread the word to my generation and help in stopping human slavery. If we all lend our helping hands, nothing is impossible.
"...The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."-Morrie Schwartz
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"The number pinned to her dress was 146..."
In 2002, the co-founders of Love 146 traveled to South East Asia on an exploratory trip to determine how they could serve in the fight against child sex trafficking. In one experience, a couple of our co-founders were taken undercover with investigators to a brothel, where they witnessed children being sold for sex. This was their experience. This is the story that changed our lives.
"We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass. All of the girls wore red dresses with a number pinned to their dress for identification. They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells of what a child should be. There was no light in their eyes, no life left. Their light had been taken from them. These children...raped each night... seven, ten, fifteen times every night. They were so young. Thirteen, eleven… it was hard to tell. Sorrow covered their faces with nothingness. Except one girl. One girl who wouldn’t watch the cartoons. Her number was 146. She was looking beyond the glass. She was staring out at us, with a piercing gaze. There was still fight left in her eyes. There was still life left in this girl...
"...All of these emotions begin to wreck you. Break you. It is agony. It is aching. It is grief. It is sorrow. The reaction is intuitive, instinctive. It is visceral. It releases a wailing cry inside of you. It elicits gut-level indignation. It is unbearable. I remember wanting to break through the glass. To take her away from that place. To scoop up as many of them as I could into my arms. To take all of them away. I wanted to break through the glass to tell her to keep fighting. To not give up. To tell her that we were coming for her…"
“Because we went in as part of an ongoing, undercover investigation on this particular brothel, we were unable to immediately respond. Evidence had to be collected in order to bring about a raid, and eventually justice on those running the brothel. It is an immensely difficult problem when an immediate response cannot address an emergency. Some time later, there was a raid on this brothel and children were rescued. But the girl who wore #146 was no longer there. We do not know what happened to her, but we will never forget her. She changed the course of all of our lives." -Rob Morris, President and Co-founder
We have taken her number so that we remember why this all started. So that we must tell her story. It is a number that was pinned to one girl, but that represents the millions enslaved. We wear her number with honor, with sorrow, and with a growing hope. Her story can be a different one for so many more.
Love is in our name, because it is our motivating drive to end child sex slavery and exploitation. We believe love to be the foundation of real, sustainable change. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." We hold that to be true. Love Protects. Love Defends. Love Restores. Love Empowers.
We are Love146.
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LOVE146 VISION
The abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. Nothing less.
LOVE146 MISSION
Abolition and Restoration! We combat child sex slavery & exploitation with the unexpected and restore survivors with excellence.
WHY, WHAT & WHO
Love146 works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through Prevention and Aftercare solutions, and contributing to a growing abolition movement.
Children are being trafficked and raped daily and slavery is still one of the darkest stories on our planet. But for us, the hope of abolition is a reality today. We believe in the power of story and its ability to affect sustainable change. We believe in helping to grow the movement of abolition. We are learners and strive to be thoroughly thoughtful with our solutions. We believe in love. Love is the foundation of our motivation.
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