Gracious and dedicated Women at Risk volunteers showed up every day at The Scarlet Cord installation to tie red string bracelets on ArtPrize visitors. By last Friday evening, with another two days of ArtPrize 2014 yet to go, all 30,000 available bracelets had been given out! People kept asking for them because they wanted to…
A young woman returned to The Scarlet Cord looking for me. She gave me a hug and thanked me for the work. As I listen to people’s stories during ArtPrize, I try not to be shocked. But this story rocked me. With tear-filled eyes, the young woman said, “As a small child, I was sex…
A young woman sat on the curb—crying—after viewing The Scarlet Cord. A young man sat next to her with his arm tight around her. Five minutes later, they were still sitting on the curb, and she was still crying. So I decided to approach them. Kneeling down, I asked the young woman, “Are you okay?”…
The Scarlet Cord installation is in partnership with Women at Risk International—Rescuing and Caring for Survivors. Join the Conversation Volunteer Help lift wounded children to places of dignity and hope by volunteering. Host a Jewlry Party Empower rescued women to earn an income with dignity free of enslavement. Browse the catalog…
A woman questioned one of the statistics in my story about Jenny. She said, “You’re exaggerating about the part in the story where it says that ‘her door swings thirty times a night,’ right?” I responded, “Some handlers, or pimps, demand that the children under their control serve thirty clients a night, others demand twenty.…
What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery. It is defined as the “recruiting, harboring, transportation, providing, or obtaining of a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through force, fraud, or coercion.” (U.S. Department of State) Take the Do 1 Thing Challenge…