If you have been a loyal blog reader, you may recall my post on how amazing it felt when I was in San Francisco and I was in a room filled entirely with people that cared about human trafficking and want to do something about it. This Tuesday night, the same thing happened to me. I met an amazing group of people from a church in Georgia. They were excited and dedicated about helping out the girls that needed it, and they were willing to do anything to make a difference. When I meet people like that, I am just so inspired and so prepared to keep doing what I’m doing. That night, we all went to Iquitos Avenue to find girls to invite them to La Casa de Veronica. That is the house that Lucy is building to house girls that were prostitutes. There is still a lot of work to do on the house, but there is no better time present. Thursday and Friday Lucy was inviting the girls to come to the house to see what the place was like, to have some fun, some good food, and to learn something too. The goal was to convince girls that they don’t need to be doing what they are doing, that they can live at this house and be safe and away from the streets.
We went around and explained to the girls what was going to happen for those days, and tell them about how much fun they were going to have. We had totally mixed reactions. Some girls were really excited and put their names on the list right away. Others took a little extra convincing, emphasizing that they would have good food and be close to the beach. We also found a few girls, not too many, that didn’t really to do with us. After an hour or so we found 17 girls that said they would want to come. All and all it was a very successful night and we were all really anxious for Thursday.
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