Talitha Kum Africa has adopted a three-year plan to confront trafficking's fast-evolving forms across the continent. It's a mission already embodied in Sr. Redemptor Ikonga's work with vulnerable children in Kenya.
"It's happening everywhere. It can happen to anyone," Maryknoll Sr. Abby Avelino, international coordinator of Talitha Kum, said during an online panel. "Everybody has a role to play to combat human trafficking."
As volunteers for LifeWay's community housing program, Our Lady of the Missions Srs. Claudia Stecker and Kate O'Neill help human trafficking survivors put their lives back together.
At an event organized by the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, sisters shared experiences of helping victims and other work against human trafficking, a "profound violence to the body of humanity."
The Life: July 30 is the United Nations' World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Our sister panelists shared what their congregations are doing to eliminate this grave offense against human dignity.
Pope Francis called on more religious orders of men and women, as well as foundations and benefactors, to get involved and help an international network of women religious in the fight against human trafficking.
