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15-year-old girl freed from a brothel in India 18 hours after arriving, her trafficker arrested!
An incredible update from The Exodus Road Through their extensive network of partners, The Exodus Road’s team in India heard about Omala,* a 15-year-old girl from Bangladesh. A known trafficker was going to move her to a brothel. The team had been in previous contact...
Micro Businesses – Breaking Cycles of Poverty by Providing Opportunity
The World Bank estimates that 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. Poverty is rampant all over the world, and it fuels much of the world’s corruption – and human trafficking.
Two Bangladeshi Women Freed the Day They Arrived in India; Three Traffickers Arrested
An incredible update from The Exodus Road 18-year-old Tavishi* was scared at first. She’d been offered a job in a hotel in another country. The distance she’d have to travel from her village in Bangladesh was as far as New York City is from Miami. But when she...
Hope Shines in Some of the Darkest Places
Lighthouses - A Program by Extreme Love Ministries Deep poverty. Epidemic addiction. Broken families. Violence. These are daily realities for a quarter-million people who live in the urban slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. And God loves every one of them. These slums are...
Som’s Story: Safe to Grow, A Survivors Story
When Som* first came to Freedom Home, staff members asked her: would you like to try gardening? An ambitious 22-year-old with an entrepreneur’s mind, at first Som wasn’t sure about spending time that way. But she’d chosen to come to Freedom Home with a commitment to build something different, something new. So she tried gardening.
Hope House at Extreme Love Ministries
Hope House – A Program by Extreme Love Ministries Protecting Children is our first priority Children are the most vulnerable members of society. And those living in the slums or streets of Cambodia are among the most vulnerable of all. For that reason we are always...
17-Year-Old Girl is Free in Thailand, and 2 Female Traffickers Have Been Arrested
A 17-year-old girl is free in Thailand, and 2 female traffickers have been arrested!
The Elijah Project – Rescuing Children and Other Victims of Human Trafficking
The Elijah Project - A Program by Extreme Love Ministries Human traffickers target the most vulnerable members of society. Most at risk are children, the poor, and those with little or no education. In Cambodia, many such persons live in one of the many slum...
Human Trafficking in the USA
We all want safety and stability. People who end up in human trafficking are no different. However, having few resources to create that safety and stability for themselves, victims of human trafficking can end up in a desperate cycle of exploitation.
Everlasting Love Skills Training
Exploitation is not an isolated event for women growing up in the extreme poverty of Cambodia’s urban slums. It’s normal. And it often takes the form of prostitution and trafficking. That’s because exploitation began when they were children. It’s all they’ve known. No one ever helped them break free of that cycle. Hopelessness is a part of life.
Seven Women Freed
In a recent raid in India, our team worked 24 hours straight to secure the freedom of 7 women and the arrest of 15 traffickers!
An informant in a small town in India told police what he knew: women were being held in hotels across the city, unable to move freely, and being forced to offer sexual services.
The Elijah Project
Human traffickers target the most vulnerable members of society. Most at risk are children, the poor, and those with little or no education. In Cambodia, many such persons live in one of the many slum communities of Phnom Penh, the capitol city.
Human Trafficking in the USA
We all want safety and stability. People who end up in human trafficking are no different. However, having few resources to create that safety and stability for themselves, victims of human trafficking can end up in a desperate cycle of exploitation.
Education Empowerment from Extreme Love Ministries
Every child has the right to an EDUCATION & education changes lives. The Education Empowerment Program gets kids in school & is life changing for children living in the slums and street-dwelling communities of Phnom Penh.
2 Girls and 1 Woman Freed After Being Trapped and Trafficked for Sex
A shadowy social media profile operating under a pseudonym in the Philippines made a promise: for the right price, I can get you sexual services from young girls. Law enforcement found the profile and asked The Exodus Road to investigate. Our team immediately went undercover to message the trafficker. Posing as buyers, they arranged a meeting at a hotel.
An update from Extreme Love Ministries
An update from Extreme Love Ministries – “We were able to place these beautiful kids safe in a family with one of our partners organization.”
Andrea Aasen
Andrea Aasen co-leads Extreme Love Ministries, an international organization dedicated to ending human trafficking. She is an apostolic leader who believes in the power of LOVE to transform cities, nations, and individuals. Andrea’s heart for the lost and exploited have led her into some of the darkest places of the world, serving in nations.
Kelly Eickenberg
Kelly Eickenberg felt a call to missions shortly after she committed her life to Christ, as a young adult. Since that time, she has been on many short-term mission trips, been a member of her church’s missions committee, started a missions support group (missionary care), and taught English and Math in China for a year.
Molula Matoba
My name is Molula Matoba, I am 26 years old. I am originally from Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa, but I am currently living in Cambodia serving with Extreme Love Ministries. I am a certified Farming God’s Way trainer and certified Moringa for Life advocate. As...
Amy Learn
Meet Amy Learn My name is Amy Learn and I’m originally from a small town in Iowa. I moved to Cambodia in 2012 after completing a mission school in Mozambique, where the Lord broke my heart for the people of Cambodia and launched me into full time ministry. The year...
Zak Koftinoff
My name is Zak Koftinoff and I’m originally from Vancouver, Canada. I moved to Cambodia in 2018 after visiting on 2 shorter term mission trips with my church. Throughout these trips the Lord broke my heart for the people of Cambodia resulting from the devastation that followed the genocide in the 1970’s. In Canada I served as a volunteer Police Officer for 2 years followed by 8 more as a Regular Member of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Little did I know, this provided me with the skills and training that would be required to oversee anti-human trafficking projects.