Modern Day Slave

Modern Day Slave

Modern Day Slave unseen and unspoken of

Young Child, Small Girl, Teen, Young Women, Slave of the New Age

So I got your attention? Hard to believe!

What if I told you that slavery still is very very real?

Would it bring up images of whips and chains, boats packed with people, slave masters and civil wars?

What if I told you that the modern day slave can look like you and me?

What if I told you that there are more slaves now than any time in history?

That is more now than if you add up both the Trans-Atlantic and White Slave trades!

More Slaves than when the Jews were in captivity!

Does that bring rage to your bones! Or does it have no affect!

27 million slaves are in bondage today as I speak

700,000 are enslaved per year, And that’s new slaves a year!

This cannot be true! But oh it’s so very true!

What if I told you stories of pain and hardship, which could make a grown man cry?

A story of a young girl named Harshita her name means Joyful or one that brings joy!

Born in Rural Bangladesh to poor parents, Her mother died when she was young

Her dad enjoy the drink a little too much, he got remarried and his new wife did not like Harshita

So her loving father sold her, not only for his wife but so he could spend more on his clutch

And now she works in brothels and sleeps on the floors! She is shown no love and has tries in her eyes!

She is used day in and day out! Her name Joyful has been taken away for she has no Joy Left!

She is a Modern Day Slave

Or a Story of Little Lochan 9 years of age his name means bright eyes

Born in Mumbai, street vendor mother odd end working father

Lochan family is so poor he is forced to work to help out

He roles Beedies on the floor of a dirty factor

Hours and Hours with his small hands rolling the small cigarettes into the end of a sharp knife

All for less than a $1 a day

His bright eyes have lost their shine and their hope!

He is a modern day slave!

Ming and Kong twins born in Shantou to parents who could barely afford life for themselves

Sent them away with a family friend who promised work and education in the big city of Hong Kong

Yet they were sold into slavery, now they work in a sweet shop!

They make skinny jeans worn by a Hipster that smokes Beedies and drinks a Grande Nonfat Latte from Starbucks. All to seem cool!

He pays $90 for a pair of jeans and the twins get paid 50 cents apiece for their efforts!

Modern day Slaves!

This has barely hit the seats that we sit in here in America!

The West African

Nation of Cote D’Ivoire rich soil and beautiful lands

Home to Philippe 14 years old

Once loved to climb trees, run and play football

Now forced to work in the Cocoa Fields

Robbed of his education and childhood

He sleeps on the floor of a hut in the fields with 10 other kids

His pay is room rice and meat and the mat the he sleeps on!

Modern Day Slave!

Coffee it runs in my veins so this one hit home more than the rest!

Mateo 25 year old father of 4

Works in the High Mountains of Peru harvesting and growing coffee beans

He makes a month for what I pay a week for coffee at Starbucks!

He is my modern day slave!

The modern day slave is not like the one of old but is real!

She is a child slave in Uganda working for the LRA

He is the farm hand in American getting paid below minimum wage

They are the children making clothes overseas on the floor of a factory

They are the sex slaves hidden in the big cities all over the world that are hidden from or eyes

What can we do? Gain Knowledge! Pray Hard! Fight if you can!

Go for Fair Trade!

So you see the whips and chains, boats and slave master, slave courts of old

Maybe unseen now but it is still real

There is still Modern Day Slaves