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No Excuses – We Now Know Better!

Don’t get me wrong. I am not some sheltered upper middleclass woman that was protected from the evils of this world. I practiced medicine for decades, traveled and provided medical care in some of the poorest areas in the world but it was my experience as the Medical Director of the Juvenile Justice Department during […]

Silent Tears

Silent Tears By Amanda Smith shh…listen don’t you hear I’m crying but they are silent tears I’m crying on the inside so you can’t see All the pain running through me I cry for you I cry for me I cry for the times I can’t so if you listen you may hear my silent […]

#StopThisTraffic

Human trafficking is not just an issue faced outside of the USA.  Unfortunately, it is a real issue in our own communities. Wedgwood’s Manasseh Project began shortly after professional staff at Wedgwood Christian Services helplessly watched as a child they knew and had cared for was trafficked and exploited in Grand Rapids. Despite all our […]

Yes, I’m Interested…

Handing me the newspaper, my husband said, “You are going to want to read this.”  The article was about the Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force (MHTTF).  He was right – I was interested. —– I had just completed a three-year teaching commitment at a university in Africa. Now back in Michigan, I was reordering my […]

The Leadership of Faith Communities and Human Trafficking

Last December, religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and other faiths came together at the Vatican to call for an end to slavery by 2020. The leaders said it was a “human and moral imperative” to wipe out human trafficking, forced, labor, prostitution and organ trafficking. They committed to do all they could to […]