More on Slavery

There are four primary areas of slavery into which children, as well as adults, are trafficked (or sold):

 THE SEX-SLAVE TRADE

Primarily young women and children, including toddlers, are sold into pornography and prostitution. There are thousands of these victims enslaved in the United States, Sudan and throughout Western Europe.

CHILD SOLDIERS

In Africa thousands of young boys and girls are forced into military camps where they are trained to fight as rebels and are often beaten, raped, and malnourished, as a means to training children to be young killing machines.

 
 FORCED MANUAL LABOR

There are agricultural and manufacturing forced manual labor camps both in Western Europe and in the USA. 

PROFESSIONAL BEGGING

This is Mafia organized begging. The children are forced into begging on the streets, and they retain none of what they collect. They are often forced to live in sewers, cellars or dark gutted apartments where many of them are crowded into a small room under lock and key with little to eat.

  And those are just four primary groups, there are a lot more.  A couple of sites I found on Slavery: Make way partners (where I got above info), and Women`s rights without frontiers (please be careful on Women`s rights without frontiers, some very graphic photos of whats going on in the world).

Golden Ciphers

  So if you have`nt noticed I posted about going to The Undergound Rialroad Freedom Center with a place called Golden Ciphers.  I know I gave a link to their web page, but I thought I`d tell you a little bit about it.  Golden Ciphers is a non-profit African American grassroots organization that is here to help the youth (ages 12-18) in the inter-city of Cleveland.  Golden ciphers has programs everyday of the week:  Monday is EET (or Entrepreneur Employment Training), Tuesday is Black Butterflies (girls group), Wednesday is Leadership, Thursday is Young Men Emerge (boys group), and Friday is Drumming as well.  To learn more go to their web site:  www.goldenciphers.org

Slavery

  On May 23, 2012, I went with Golden Ciphers to the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  At the museum I learned what slaves had to go thru.  Africans where taken from their homeland, marched across fields on foot, and put on a slave ship bound for the Americas.  There was very little room on the slave ships.  Slaves crouched in the holds with no where to lay down or go to the bathroom.  They sat there in their own waste.  Conditions where so bad that the slaves jumped ship knowing it was better than slavery.
  When the slaves got to the Americas the where auctioned off by slave traders to the highest bidder.  Babies and Children were ripped from their mothers arms and families seperated! Slave traders made around $800,000 a year!
  Slavery was abolished by most countries (America being one of them), but its still going on!  Some types of slavery are: Sex slaves, Child Slodiers, Forced laborers, and many more.  The ones mentioned don`t happen as much in America (as far as I know) but there is slavery.  A couple of the ones in America are Threats and Fraud.
  This was suprising.  I knew that in  some countries (like India for one) there was still slavery, but it amazed me that its still going on in America.  I thought it terrible that people don`t know and that is what this post is for, to inform you what is still gonig on in the world.  When we don`t think its possible.
  What do think?  Is there anything you would add to this?  Please tell me so I can inform more people.
                                             Thanks for reading!

Keeping the Faith (march 2-3)

Friday, March 2, I went to Cincinnati for a youth conference.  11 teens and 2 adults from my church (Trinity Church) went.  It lasted 3 days - Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  We stayed at Blue Ash Embassy suites, I think its a really nice hotel.  They have a pool, a hot tub, a sauna, a work-out room and some other stuff.  Like I said really nice.  We got there at about 5:30am, unpacked and went to the room we were meeting in.  We met all the other teens (30 or so, including us) and Session #1 started, we were told not to sit with the group we come with and to mingle (as in mix with the other tables - a bunch of the Trinity group sat together XD).  The Pastor for my church was the speaker = fill in the blanks :).  After session some of us went to a big group room and played games, while everyone else went swimming.  Later on we went to our rooms, showered and went to bed.
  The next morning we all had breakfast and went to session #2 and workshop #1.  We then headed out to explore the mall.  At the mall we had lunch and set of in small groups of 3-4 peeps.  An hour 1/2 before we had to leave everyone met up and walked around together.  We found out it was national platapuse day and the Disney store was giving out perry the platapuse hats.  We all got one and went around telling people 'happy platapuse day'.  We then went back to the hotel and got ready for session #3 and workshop #2.  After session we went up to the big group room we had gone to Friday night.  As we hung out we ate pizza and talked.  We then all headed to bed.
  Next morning we had breakfast and packed so we didn't have to later.  We then went to Session #4 and workshop #3.  After session we went to the cars and left on the 4 hour ride home.

the very messy living room

the bathroom

the hotel from floor #2

twin lamps residing over a very messy bedside table

the kitchenette (far left) and couches

Cascades the resteraunt

a table in front of... a bunch of tables

the evil turtle that lives in the hotel

empty flat land

more empty flat land

my dear friends Destiny and Violet

ME!!!!!!!!

Lightsabers

 For Christmas I made Abby, Daniel, Tim, Ben and Joanna light sabers.  There not flimsy plastic ones either.  I used 2' of 3/4" thick PVC piping with 2 layers of installation wrapped with duck tape and then used colored duck tape, regular duck tape and electric tape to make them look like light sabers.

My book review

Just last night I finished book called The False Princess by Elisi (A-lish) O'Neal.  Its about a girl who thought she was a princess, only to find that she isn't the real princess.  The real princess was taken to a convent to keep her safe from murder.  Right before the princess was born the King and Queen went to the oracle of the nameless god.  The prophecy they are told is that the princess will die around her 16 birthday.  And so the King and Queen switch her secretly for another baby at birth.  But a distant relative of the King and Queen is after the throne and puts her daughter in place of the real princess.  Its end is awesome.  If you want to find out why its awesome read it.  You'll love it.

School

I' m home schooled (Yes, love it) and I do lots of different types of school work, but the one thing I always do is math. My Mom found a cool math site (Khan Academy) that I go on everyday. Its mostly about math - they cover arithmetic, Pre-algebra, Algebra and Trigonometry. But they have videos on a ton of other things - Math (of course), Art, Brain teasers, Money/banking, Science, Test prep (preparing you for tests), History and talks'n interviews. The best thing - Its free! So you can get help with your schooling and not have to pay anything.
I also journal. Well, gotta go do my math instead of post on here, Bye.

Family life

So at the moment we have my four cousins staying with us, not sure how long they'll be here. Four kids added on to a family of eight kids and two adults = full house, attitudes and (at times) fun/war. Its interesting living in a house of 14 peeps. Not much breathing room (figure of speaking). We have to redo chores, fun time, punishments, etc. Just a thought does anyone (personally - not the Duggards) know any families that size or close? I know a family of 12.
Pray for my other cousin as well - he has two types of cancer and the doctors say he has about 2 months left on earth. His father - my uncle - lost his wife to cancer two years after my cousin was born, so pray for him to get through this tough time.