You’re invited to dessert!
Help us celebrate the beginning
of a new Habitat East Bay development
in Bay Point!
Sunday, August 22, 2010 6:30 – 8 p.m.
at Hope Center Covenant Church
2275 Morello Avenue, Pleasant Hill 94523
We welcome everyone to come and hear about the
El Rincon development, including volunteer and other
support opportunities. We’ll have time for Q & A and
dessert will be served!
For event info, contact Tom Patitucci at 925-685-4673 x. 14
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Habitat for Humanity East Bay creates successful homeownership
opportunities for families with limited incomes by building sustainable
housing and revitalizing neighborhoods.
Habitat for Humanity East Bay is proud to receive Charity Navigator's
highest rating for our fiscal responsibility for the third consecutive year
in a row. For more info, go to: www.habitateastbay.org
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Written by Pastor Art Barrett
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 22:08
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www.sctnow.org
Stop Child Trafficking Now was founded in New York City in 2007 by Ron and Lynette Lewis out of their passion to help stop the growing crime of child trafficking. Children are sold or lured, often under false pretenses and by someone they trust, to a job that turns out to be prostitution. Their bodies are sold for sex, bringing as much as $200,000 per year to their handlers/pimps. (1) They are often the victims of beatings, harassment and intimidation, plus drug addiction, and diseases like HIV/AIDS.
The damage done in this manner to a child’s soul may not be repaired in a lifetime, so Ron and Lynette have focused their efforts on preventing these unimaginable crimes from ever being perpetrated against young girls or boys. Victims may be vulnerable because they have been taken out of the context of their own family, language or culture. SCTNow passionately seeks to search out and prosecute men who sell children for sex, or who pay for sex with children. Under U.S. law, sex with minors anywhere in the world is illegal. Only 5682 cases were prosecuted in 2007 with 60% of those cases resulting in convictions. (2). Clearly, much more can be done.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2003 stipulated maximum lifetime sentences for sex crimes against minors if aggravating factors such as kidnapping, force, fraud or coercion are present. The cases need to be well-presented and supported in order to result in maximal criminal penalties. Local law enforcement agencies are severely understaffed and under-funded. This is where SCT Now teams make the difference. Teams of highly experienced covert investigators track predators and research airtight cases to present to the FBI or to local law enforcement agencies that result in convictions. They also teach police in other countries how to do such investigations.
SCTNow supporters make these operations possible. Just $250.00 can keep a 4 member team in the field for an hour. With more than 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry (3) many more supporters are needed to see an end to this activity in our lifetimes.
SCTNow is committed to complete financial transparency to its supporters. Its staff members take no salaries. 10% of donations go to partner organizations, an estimated 15% to organizational costs and 75% directly to fund Special Operations Teams. Annual audits are posted on Guidestar.com. For more information, call 212 -333-SCTN, or go to the website, SCTNow.org
On October 2nd, 2010, join walkers in over 30 cities nationwide, in a nationwide effort to raise $1.5 million dollars for this unique cause!
YOU can help. Your efforts can change the life of a young girl or boy who may otherwise end up used up, hurt, and “thrown away”. Please help pass on this information and SIGN UP NOW to walk in October so we can STOP CHILD TRAFFICKING NOW!
(1) NBC report by Teri Williams
(2) Trafficking in People Report,, June 2008, p. 37
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