At this week's breakfast meeting we were joined by Jackie Knight and Maria Moffitt from Destiny Rescue Australia.  Jackie is a volunteer and Maria is the Partnership Manager who gave a very confronting talk on child sex trafficking and what we can do about it through the support of Destiny Rescue Australia.
 
Slavery still exists with $40.3 million enslaved worldwide with 25% (10M) who are children. It is estimated that 1.2 Million children will be sold into sexual slavery this year and due to COVID this number will increase next year because the families that are financially on the brink this year will be pushed over the edge next year.
 
Destiny Rescue is an Australian founded, internationally recognised NGO dedicated to fighting the trafficking of children predominately in the South East Asian sex industry.  Destiny Rescue works alongside local law enforcement as well as the AFP and FBI providing intelligence and logistical analysis to government agencies as well restorative After-Care to the children they help liberate.  Destiny Rescue operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Phillipines, Nepal, two undisclosed Asian countries and The Dominican Republic.
 
Destiny Rescue do 3 things:
  1. RESCUE - their highly trained teams of agents go undercover into some of the darkest places on the planet in search of children trapped in sex trafficking and exploitation.  Once identified, agents work tirelessly to bring these children into freedom.
  2. RESTORATION - Destiny Rescue operates several rescue-houses.  Depending on circumstances, girls will attend these rescue-houses as shor term residents or day students. They provide a safe haven and caring environment.  Rescue girls receive medical attention, trauma counselling, education and vocational training.
  3. REINTEGRATION - Depending on the circumstances, Destiny Rescue Social Workers will reunite rescue girls with their family or arrange safe shared accommodation within the community.
Their goal is to rescue 1630 children in 2020 and they have rescued 5400 children since 2011.
 
Maria showed the following video of Destiny Rescue Founder and International President Tony Kirwan sharing the story of one of his most unforgettable moments on rescue. Rescuing children from sex trafficking is hard.
 
 
 
How can we help?
Maria took us through some of the costs for Destiny Rescue:
  1. To rescue one child and for them to go through one years worth of Destiny Rescue programs such as after care, restoration and reintegration to make sure they are back to school or work costs $1500.
  2. To conduct a raid involves surveillance, logistics, transport and it is multiple children going through the programs, is roughly $10000.
  3. Setting up border patrols.  Currently looking at setting up three more in Nepal and they cost approximately $12000.  Click here to read how they operate.
Maria asked that when we are working out our budget of what organisations we are going to support that we give consideration to Destiny Rescue
 
WAYS TO GIVE
  1. ONE-TIME GIFT
  2. RESCUE A CHILD