Happy Horizons Children's Ranch

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The child is not dead by Ingrid Jonker Poetry Classics Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Ingrid Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa and is often called the South African Sylvia Plath, owing to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent » read more.

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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.