Projects
Projects, past and present, that Raise Their Voice is a part of bringing into reality:
Disappointed by Hope: Migrants and Refugees in Search of a Better Country
About: A 30 Day of Prayer book forthcoming from YWAM Malaysia and Raise Their Voice. Featuring the photography of Jonathan Kwok, reflections by Melanie Hurlbut, stories by Andrew Kooman, and a foreword by Ambassador Dato’ Dennis Ignatius, Former High Commissioner of Malaysia to Canada
Purpose: To inform & engage the moral conscience of people in South East Asia and in North America to motivate them to compassionate action for the well-being and justice of the migrants and refugees in Malaysia.
Identified issues
- Unaccompanied minors
- Maids, no days off work; passports withheld, domestic violence
- Breakdown of family
- Mental health issues, depression, suicide, hopelessness
- Living circumstances
- Human trafficking
- Physical Abuse
- Black-market economy to extort refugees/migrants
- Bad labor laws
- Justice issues
Production of She Has A Name, a Play by Andrew Kooman
Andrew Kooman, president of Raise Their Voice, recently wrote a full length play about human trafficking that is in pre production.
About the play Andrew writes:
The trafficking of people between borders and within borders for labour, for sex, and for other purposes is a $42 billion industry worldwide that destroys lives, especially of the young, and weakens society. Each year 1.2 million children are forced into some facet of the sex trade, globally. There are currently 27 million slaves in the world today, a number almost impossible to believe. Aware that the magnitude of such statistics can fail to register, I decided to write a play about one girl, caught up in the reality of the sex trade. This play is an attempt to explore and engage a staggering global issue through a story about characters in circumstances beyond their ability to control.
Past projects:
Africa Sing Me Your Song
RTV has had the privilege of working with SaveAfricaNow in its release of the documentary Africa Sing Me Your Song which has touched the hearts of people around the world and was broadcast worldwide in 2009 to television audiences by the TCT Network.
Sex + Money: A Global Search for Human Worth
RTV was a key contributor to the production of Sex + Money: A Global Search for Human Worth, the full colour photogenX publication. The book addresses the reality of human trafficking worldwide and is helping to mobilize 10,000 people to address the injustice of the modern day slave trade.
30 Days of Prayer for the Voiceless
RTV has had a key part in the making of 30 Days of Prayer for the Voiceless, the photogenX booklet that has gone around the world and been translated into more than 5 languages. The booklet focuses on different issues of gender-based injustice and has helped mobilized 100,000 people worldwide to pray and act against injustice.
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