Tanzania, Africa Passion Project

Human Trafficking Awareness | Courage Worldwide

Webinet Media does a few passion projects a year. This year we chose to go to Tanzania, Africa with Courage Worldwide. We worked with the local churches and leaders of the communities bringing awareness to the problem of human trafficking and ways to help with the rehabilitation of girls rescued from such a terrible atrocity.
Below are a few of the questions that went through my head as I processed what we would be facing on this humanitarian trip to Tanzania, Africa.

• • What type of person pays to have sex with a girl?
  • How does a young girl get caught in such a horrifying dark place?
  • What do I have that can possibly help these girls?
  • What do I do with this information and how will it change me?

 

The truths that you have to face to answer these questions put you in a state of denial. How do you face these truths about humanity in your own city and abroad?

My daughter and I chose to face the many questions and unknowns by just trusting that what we had to give was what was needed now.

Courage Worldwide continues to face this horrendous crime by informing the Lutheran Churches about human trafficking and teaching about emotional health.  Joel and Stephanie Midthun manage the Courage House in Tanzania established to help rehabilitate rescued girls. Their passion is to build up the church so that the church has the capacity to face this problem of human trafficking. Many had never heard of the principles they were teaching or that human trafficking was happening in their own village. A strong healthy church creates a community where rescued girls can thrive.

Since returning from this trip Joel and Stephanie Midthun have chosen to move to Tanzania.  They released their church, Living Waters, to God and listened to a deep heart tug to make a difference in Tanzania.

Below are a couple videos that were put together quickly after our return to share the culture and hearts of the Lutheran Pastors in Tanzania.  The girls and pastors truly had servants hearts.  It touched me in deep ways to feel how they honored us and valued our time.

My future goal is to put together a more direct video about this difficult subject bridging the gap between the average middle-class women, like me, and young girls caught in such horrible atrocities and unspeakable pain.