13. What opened your eyes to the reality of human trafficking: Reading and traveling – seeing for myself that people buy very young people for sex in Cambodia.14: What you are doing to change it: I’m volunteering with an organization (Hagar Cambodia) which responds to human rights abuse and human trafficking in two ways – unique social programs to support women and children in crisis, and social enterprises that give them economic independence that reduces their chances of being trafficked/exploited again.

15. Specific justice issue you’d like to address most: Trafficking for sexual exploitation, and child labour.  They are perpetuated by poverty, so employment alternatives need to created as well in order to end these issues.

16. Country you consider to have the greatest need: Cambodia (sex slavery), India (bonded labour).
17. Literature/ media you recommend to help people get acquainted with the issues: 
Not For Sale (David Batstone) and related website; Disposable People (Kevin Bales); International Justice Mission ; Hagar Cambodia; freetheslaves.net;Amazing Grace (Eric Metaxas) – a biography of William Wilberforce.  Not a contemporary resource, but certainly an inspiring account of the man who nearly singlehandedly abolished the transatlantic slave trade.   We can all learn much from his life.

18. Heros you look to for inspiration: Jesus, William Wilberforce, my mom (Faith Campbell), Joseph and Karin Ayok, Marie Ens

19. Organizations, groups you know of effectively addressing the injustice of human trafficking: Chab Dai (an organization in Cambodia dedicated to equipping the church to respond to issues of trafficking and human rights abuse); IJM; Hagar Cambodia and Hagar International; The Not For Sale Campaign; humantrafficking.org

20. How the modern-day slave trade will be abolished:
It will end when we as Christians put aside our doctrinal/interpretational/denominational battles and work together to relieve human suffering.  I do believe that Western Christians have a very important role to play in bringing an end to the modern slave trade, trafficking, and injustice.  Money = Power, and because we Christians in the West are very rich by international standards, we also have the power that comes with it.  If we unite together under this great moral and scriptural imperative, and arm ourselves with education, with resources, with knowledge and most importantly, with love, I believe we will be unstoppable.
If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger 
and malicious talk; and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the
hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will
rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always.  (Isaiah 58:9-10)