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Tips to Raise Awareness About Sex Trafficking and Child Abuse

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January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day.  It’s never too early to have meaningful dialogues with your children and teens about the issue of child abuse and sex traffic recruitment, an epidemic in America. The media reports stories about sex trafficking sting operations involving minors every day. And the statistics are staggering as seen in the attached (new) Infographic, produced by Selah Freedom, the largest, national organization

5 Practical Ways to Teach Your Children About Charity

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I think we all want our children to grow up and become kind, upstanding, generous people. But, how do we figure out the right way to teach them to be those people? For quite some time, people have tried to figure out how exactly they can get their kids to share without crying and show love without jealousy. At least that’s something I’ve been wondering! So, to help us on our path to raising generous, charitable children, I’ve done some research and found some practical ways to teach your

August 3: Free Medium Firehouse Sub in Exchange for Water Donation

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Firehouse Subs’ eighth annual H2O for Heroes bottled water collection drive takes place Saturday, August 3. Each guest will receive a free medium sub in exchange for donating one (1) 24-pack of bottled water, benefitting local fire and police departments, emergency victims, senior and community centers, and more. Losing just 1.5 percent of the body’s average water content can cause mild dehydration; the average human loses as much as two quarts of water per day just through normal functions,

Summer is the Season for Kidnappings

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2017 Statistics identify that the number of children abducted or that go missing every day in the United States is 2,160. That is enough kids to fill an entire large population size school that do not return home every day.

The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrown Away Children (NISMART) has found that 41% of abductions occur during the summer months of June, July, and August. 74% of non-family child abduction victims are girls and 80% of child abductions

Homecoming Dresses Donated to Underprivileged Girls

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A new charity called the “Believe in Yourself Project” is helping to replace the poor body image that afflicts many girls and women. This image is heightened by what the traditional fashion industry deems as beautiful: Women are expected to appear a certain way and live up to a manufactured and unrealistic notion of what beauty is. At the same time, strained finances can prevent many girls from keeping up with what’s trending or cool, making them feel isolated among their friends for not

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