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Make Way Partners Anti-Trafficking Network

Our co-founders, Milton and Kimberly Smith, were missionaries in the Iberian Peninsula when they first discovered human trafficking in 2002.

The discovery changed their whole lives. They spent the following two years learning everything they could about human trafficking. Their hands-on education came from the streets, sewers, desert and jungle as well as books and governmental reports. Their most transformational education came from spending time with victims of trafficking and those most vulnerable to it.

Having their hearts broken where God's breaks for the oppressed, and never able to view the world in quite the same way, Milton and Kimberly committed themselves and Make Way Partners to finding practical ways to protect those most vulnerable and who had the fewest resources for help.

Two important components to understand about the Make Way Partners Anti-Trafficking Network functions are that we strive to work within an appropriate cultural context, and we support indigenous leadership rather than plant long-term missionaries. In this way, we create a sustainable-life-transformational future for those we serve.

For these reasons, every member of our network is distinctive, answering the unique issues they face among their own tribe, culture or country in an appropriate and effective manner. Just as Christ transcends all time and culture, so should we, His Body.

 

In Romania: MWP provides 100% funding for House of Treasure , the only private shelter for victims of human trafficking in Romania. At House of Treasure, we provide a safe and loving home with counseling, job training, discipleship, parenting training (when the women have born children out of their rapes), and life skills as we help them to reintegrate into society.

In Sudan: Five decades of Islamic invasion, persecution, war and genocide make the orphans and widows of Sudan the most vulnerable people group in the world. MWP's response is a Christ-centered orphan-care network, which employs many of the widows to care for our orphans.

Through our indigenous network, we build orphanages and provide complete care for hundreds of orphans. Here, we protect them from genocide, slavery and persecution while providing a safe and loving home, food, discipleship, education, and medical care.

In Darfur and northern Southern Sudan, the children are most vulnerable to the Janjaweed. However, Sudan is the largest country in Africa, so the Northern government backs the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) out of Uganda to flank the country and capture children from the South. Thus, the first one hundred acres we developed are on the border of Darfur where we now have three orphan homes, housing approximately 500 children. In the South, we have 200 acres near the border of Uganda where we are currently constructing a home for several hundred more orphans.

We also have a thriving slave repatriation ministry that provides practical care and discipleship to former sex slaves and their families.

In DR Congo MWP just added an indigenous partner caring for orphans and widows in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Click here to learn more about this new ministry!

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