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Your chance to fight human trafficking [Livestream]

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Your chance to fight human trafficking | World Vision Blog
It’s easy to get disillusioned with political debate. Frequently, it degenerates into petty point-scoring and partisan bickering. Constructive dialogue, it seems, often disappears out the window. So it’s nice when an issue comes along on which nearly everybody can agree. One such issue is the problem of human trafficking — the use of fraud, force, or coercion to exploit a child or adult for profit. It’s estimated that there are more than 12 million trafficked people in the world today — a $32 billion industry. Every day, children are forced to perform sexual acts or work long hours in filthy, dangerous conditions for the financial benefit of someone else. Sometimes, I imagine my own children forced into this position, and...
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Interns with a [world] vision

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Interns with a vision | World Vision blog
As we get ready to send off our amazing summer interns — some back to school, some onto start their careers, but all to wherever God leads them — we want to say THANK YOU for the help you’ve given us this summer, and the impact you’ve had on the lives of children around the world. As our president Rich Stearns has said so many times this summer, “You are world-changers and we only wish we could hire every one of you.” Special thanks to Chris Clouzet, World Vision intern with the web content team, who compiled and edited this edition of “what working at World Vision means to me”… but with a twist — what interning at World Vision...
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12 challenges for your summer bucket list

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Children in Laos. ©2010 Nila Douanesouvanh/World Vision
When I was in college, I spent my summers visiting family and friends, journeying on cross-country road trips, catching up on extracurricular reading, or traveling internationally (if I could afford it). I always started off my summer vacation with a desire to make my summer really count — to do something purposeful and intentional to help other people. But after a few weeks in the sun, I often resorted to all my summer norms. College students aren’t getting away with that mentality so easily anymore — not with resources like our World Vision ACT:S Summer Adventure Bucket List. It’s 12 challenges meant to get you out of the house and experience the world around you....
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