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The numbers are simply overwhelming and greater than any organization can solve; but when we hear their voices and know their names, we will all help.

  

Compassion First Anti-Trafficking

Compassion First has engaged a capital campaign towards the opening and operation of a series of top-notch transitional centers for sexually trafficked girls in Indonesia and the broader Asia/Pacific.  The first center is scheduled to open in 2009.

About Transitional Care

Compassion First transitional care centers will provide all encompassing lifecare for survivors including housing, medical/dental care, life and spiritual care, reintegration services and education to the fullest extent of each child's abilities and dreams.  Compassion First transitional care facilities will be staffed by professionals who will all recieve additional training from Transitions Global, a pioneer in next-level transtional care for victims of sexual trafficking.  Once reintegrated into qualified families, Compassion First will follow clients with transitional and financial support through the completion of their education. 

About Indonesia

Indonesia is particularly underserved where victim intervention and aftercare are concerned.  Geography and economic desparity lend to conditions that make trafficking of humans a robust industry. 

Your Participation 

This project needs your help and will be fully reliant upon the generosity of those that give on a monthly basis.  Please consider partnering with us.
 
From the Streets and Fields to the Classroom

Less brutal than sexual slavery but, nonetheless tragic, is the forced labor of children in the absence of funding and/or opportunity for education. 

Compassion First has engaged two partnered strategies toward solutions for child forced labor in Sierra Leone.

Education Sponsorships

Compassion First is providing case managed sponsorships for children forced to the street to work due to lack of family funding for school fees.  Provision of school sponsorships are fully dependent on contract fulfillment by families committing to no longer utilize children as forced labor insuring the basic rights of sponsored children.

Rural School Building

Compassion First is partnered with church efforts in Sierra Leone to build and operate schools in villages where education is not available.  Micro-enterprise strategies and co-op programs on farming equipment are engaged in exchange for family commitments to keep children in school during harvest.

Compassion first will begin coordination school building teams  and water project teams to Sierra Leone in 2009.
 
Disaster Relief/Rebuilding

Long-Term Rebuilding Efforts

Compassion First engages long-term rebuilding strategies in areas disrupted by natural disaster.  Alongside partnered efforts with peer organizations and community leaders, Compassion First provides case-management, construction management, volunteer recruitment, deployment and management and operational oversight. 

Current Disaster Relief Operations:

  • Biloxi, Mississippi: While core operational efforts have concluded, CF is still coordinating occasional teams to the Gulf.  If you would like to schedule a team, please contact Ken Wetzel at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Vernonia, Oregon:  Volunteer efforts still continue in flood effected Vernonia, OR.  Teams are coordinated Thursday-Saturday. If you are interested in serving in Vernonia, please contact Michael Do at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Galveston, Texas

Compassion First is not yet announcing a response to Hurricane Ike but is currently working with peer organizations toward a long-term rebuilding operation in Galveston, TX.  Should rebuilding efforts be engaged, they will not begin until first and second responders have completed their work.  Please check back.