Some quick (and good!) news today... the 23 trafficked kids are heading home.
As I write, they are in Ho Chi Minh City on the way to the airport. Jetstar has donated free flights for them, saving us well over $1000 and a 2 day bus trip. My staff and some police are flying with them. I can only imagine how they'll all be feeling... these kids have never seen an airplane before, let alone flown in one!
In a couple of hours I will meet them at Hanoi's airport and then head back to their villages with them. It's a 12 hour bus ride, but again one of our friends here in Vietnam has offered to help. Peak Adventure Travel is providing the bus for free, once again saving us a small fortune.
The really good news in all of that is we can now use the donations you have sent us for the direct care of the children and their families.
Once the kids are home we will start planning out a map of how to help them for the longer term. We need to address the issues that lead them to being trafficked in the first place.
But that's all for tomorrow. For today - the kids are going home!
1 comment:
Great news. I bet they can't get home quick enough. I hope it is all they and their families dream it will be.
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