UNCLEAN WATER

Together, unclean water and poor  sanitation are the world’s second biggest killer of  children. Unclean water and poor sanitation  have claimed more lives over the past century  than any other cause—and in many developing  countries they continue to do so. Globally,  diarrhea kills more people than tuberculosis or  malaria—five times as many children die of  diarrhea as of HIV and AIDS. The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to unclean water and poor sanitation dwarf the casualties associated with violent conflict. No act of terrorism generates economic devastation on the scale of the crisis in water and sanitation.

The 25 billion liters of mineral water consumed annually by U.S. households exceeds the entire clean water consumption of the 2.7 million people in Senegal lacking access to an improved water source. On average, people in the United States use more than 400 liters of water a day. Clean water and sanitation would save the lives of countless people. The world has the technology, the finance, and the human capacity to remove the blight of water insecurity from millions of lives.

CHILD SOLDIERS

Realistically speaking it is more than likely impossible to accurately calculate the number of children that are forcefully pulled into this type of situation. It is also clear that there are tens of thousands of child soldiers. They exist in all regions of the world and, almost inevitably, wherever there is armed conflict. The vast majority of child soldiers are in the ranks of non-state armed groups. Dozens of armed groups in at least 24 countries have recruited under 18′s and many have used them in hostilities. As of 2005 the use of children in armed conflicts has marginally declined. With the help of the International Criminal Court and other organizations we have been able to see an even bigger decline with the injustice of child soldiers.

WOMEN IN AFRICA

AIDS, female genital mutilation, sexual violence, trafficking, and torture, are just some of the reasons young women may become an endangered species in Africa.  In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women have been used as weapons of war so greatly that the result has been labeled as “femocide”.  18 million women live with AIDS in Africa, and 50% of pregnant women are HIV positive.  An estimated 24 million girls are deprived of an elementary school education.  In South Africa a women is raped on average every 17 seconds.  There is a war waging against the women of Africa, but God wants to bring them a hope and a future.

ADULT INDUSTRY

The sex industry consists of both commercial and independent workers providing sex-related services and adult entertainment. The sex industry generates $13 billion in the United States alone, $57 billion world wide. The main forms of the sex trade include; street prostitution, escort agencies, sex tourism, pornography, internet trade, child prostitution, and male prostitution. In 2001 the University of Pennsylvania conducted a survey in which they discovered an estimated 293,000 American youth to be currently at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Beauty From Ashes ministries estimates that, 65% of men who attend church regularly and 35% of American pastors are by definition addicted to pornography. YWAM Kauai is dedicated to seeing the sex industry fall and the Kingdom of God expanded across the globe. Psalm 106:3, “Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.”

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

This injustice involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transfering, harbouring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. This is happening right now all around the world whether we  are to acknowledge it or not. In America the city of Houston, Texas holds the number one spots specifically for sex trafficking. It is reported that in major events such as the Olympics and the soccer world cup that the business of not only sex trafficking triples but the recruitment for new, forced workers women, men, and children alike doubles as well.

An estimated 375,000 women in the Philippines are in the sex trade industry. One out of four of those women are children. Angeles City is the second worst city in the world for sex tourism, here there are 15,000 registered workers in sex establishments. One in five women working in them have been trafficked – forced, tricked or coerced into prostitution.

There is more to come…