Nine years ago, four children lived in a tin shack along a dirt street in Mexico. Their parents had separated the year before, leaving the children to fend for themselves. Eight-year-old Brenda spent her days mopping and doing other tasks in exchange for food while her brothers went to school. When she wasn’t working, she locked herself inside their shack, hiding from the drug cartels and human traffickers who often kidnapped children like her.
One day, Brenda and her siblings were taken to a home for vulnerable children. Staff at the home taught them about God’s love, but at first, Brenda couldn’t see how a loving God would allow situations like hers. In the past nine years, she has come to know God and understand that He loves her and created her with purpose.
Today, 17-year-old Brenda joyfully cleans people’s houses but hopes to help children on the street one day. Most children living alone on the streets in this city end up in the clutches of traffickers and gangs whose ill intentions are to make a profit off of them. We’re grateful for your support, which allows our contacts to rescue some of these children.
Child Rescue also operates in South Asia and Kenya. If you would like to help rescue and provide for children vulnerable to human trafficking, child marriage, and misuse, click the donate button to give a gift.
