Happy Horizons Children's Ranch

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Evonne (not her real name) came to us as a “taxi girl”. Just fifteen and already a series of sexual partners. She has been raised in a culture of sex and violence. As is our custom during orientation we sent her for a medical checkup to get her cleared to transfer to the Ranch where a new life of education, spiritual formation and community would begin. However, “she is HIV » read more.

Taxi girls, are little girls who are recruited to provide sex for taxi drivers, Cebu City has thousands of taxis and they use these girls to provide sexual acts during their shifts. Tuesday of this week we enrolled five of these girls into our program at Happy Horizons Children’s Ranch (we originally thought we would have six, but one ran away with her boyfriend). They are 13 and 14 years » read more.

“We can get PhP 5000 each for selling our virginity”, Pastor Raul, overheard two girls chatting. Raul, told me the story and I said we must do something about this. Then came the idea of having an outting for these type of girls and by bringing them to the Ranch; having our girls testify about their lives at the Ranch and giving these girls a taste of a life they » read more.

Worth many thousands of dollars, COH shipped HHCR a 40′ container full of food, toys, equipment and much more. They also left us the container for a staging place for relief goods for our province. We are so grateful for their ministry. Also included was over a quarter of a million vitamins purchased by Asia’s Little Ones. They are given daily to over three thousand children in our projects throughout » read more.