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Destiny Rescue Takes on OSAEC in the Philippines
“One mistake can cost the life and freedom of the child.”
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Five-year-old girl rescued from online sexual abuse after arrest of Australian man
In cases of Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children (OSAEC), our operations may span the globe.
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New Collaboration in the Philippines Aims to Rescue More Children
A new partnership gives victimised children in the Philippines a voice.
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A New Weapon in the Battle Against OSEC
The online sexual exploitation of children has grown exponentially, but so has our ability to combat it.
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TIP Ratings Explained: A Nation’s Response to the Horror of Trafficking
The TIP Report goes far beyond examining the global human trafficking problem…
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Teamwork in the Dominican Puts Sex Traffickers on Their Heels
Our team in the Dominican Republic continues to expand their caseload thanks to intentional collaboration with law enforcement.
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Destiny Rescue Signs Agreement with Thai Government to stop online sexual exploitation
We are proud to announce the signing of an MOU that formalizes our professional relationship with Thai law enforcement.
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Closing the Gaps at the Nepal Border
New border stations added in Nepal to stop more traffickers from luring victims out of the country.
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What is OSEC?
Kids are being exploited online at an alarming rate. Learn more about this complex problem and how we can address it.
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Kenya: An Introduction
Despite many challenges, Kenyans are known for being hopeful for a better future. Learn about this beautiful land of contrasts and the work we’re doing to make futures brighter in Kenya.
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More Rescues than Ever Before
2022 was a year of record growth for Destiny Rescue.
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Reintegration Update: 50 survivors celebrate their graduation!
Join us in celebrating the accomplishments of these 50 precious children.
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Philippine Government Declares War on OSEC
The Filipino government has taken a strong stance against the online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC).
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Over 100 children rescued in one month
A busy month of rescue in one country brought freedom to 122 girls in July!
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What happens after a border rescue in Nepal?
Passionate women with strong communication skills are the heartbeat of our work in Nepal. Their intentional voices drive our work forward from start to finish.
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Operation “Dark corner”
Destiny Rescue agents in Thailand have been working closely with police coordinating raids to rescue children from the sex industry.
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Rescue advances into another country in Latin America
Destiny Rescue brings our expertise to another country in Latin America bringing our total country count in the region to three.
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New border station opens just in time to rescue teen girl
The 15-year-old was about to taste misery before we spotted her.
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Makara’s story: Survivor takes first steps towards her dream of owning a coffee shop
Before her 16th birthday, she fled the sex industry.
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Traffickers “brainwash” children in multidimensional poverty
Poverty is sometimes merely one of many deprivations crushing children.
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Teams deliver trauma rehabilitation classes to hundreds of survivors throughout rural provinces
Destiny Rescue bolsters trauma rehabilitation programs by hiring 16 staff early this year.
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What is next for graduates in Uganda?
In Uganda, 36 survivors are ready to spread their wings after finishing their vocational training and graduating from community care late last month.
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36 survivors smile, dance and cheer after graduating
An inspiring group of girls graduated last month including 17-year-old Tracy.
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Special food packs and a weekend excursion
The work of rescue and reintegration in Uganda is thriving. Already this year, over 100 children have been rescued and started their paths to freedom in our projects across the country.
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How food packs help rescue children from abuse and combat food insecurity
Food insecurity is a major vulnerability leading to the exploitation of children.
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Survivor on track to becoming a registered nurse
Brinda is busy in her third year of nursing school but took the time to share part of her story with us.
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Social media is becoming the new red-light district
Child sex trafficking is increasingly making its home on the internet.
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School reopenings to “greatly” protect kids in Uganda
Uganda's schools were closed for nearly two years, creating ugly, unintended side effects for kids.
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Destiny Rescue celebrates empowering our team
Nearly every staff member in our biggest undisclosed project nation connected in the same room for the first time.
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Destiny Rescue’s record-breaking year
The milestone is thanks to rapid expansion across our project nations.
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Bracing for “flood” of child sex abuse
Covid-19 restrictions took away jobs for many people in Thailand. Once restrictions ease, they'll be desperate for work.
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Health weeks have a positive impact on survivors in Thailand
Health weeks address both the emotional and physical health of survivors. These classes run about every other month and give staff the opportunity to connect with and teach survivors after rescue.
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“Terror” in Haiti fuels labour trafficking in the Dominican
Traffickers are exploiting Haitians wishing to flee their home country.
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Six-year-old girl rescued at the Nepal border
Her aunt and uncle were supposed to care for her, but their ugly side soon showed.
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Survivor presses against the grain to imprison trafficker
Most survivors refuse to press charges against their trafficker, but why?
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Rescues skyrocket after befriending hundreds of villages
Our team hopes this is the start of something "great".
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Police must upskill to beat human trafficking
This is because traffickers are master innovators, a rescue agent says.
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Group of boys rescued from dangerous pimps
The rescue was one of three raid missions executed at the same time.
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Survivor nearly trafficked moments after meeting a young man on bus
Traffickers can spend up to two years grooming girls in Nepal, but others don't waste any time.
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A wave of rescues – 173 now free
Destiny Rescue rescued 173 girls in an undisclosed country in Southeast Asia between July and August.
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Words from Hope and Rosie
Survivors in Uganda share about their journeys into a new life of freedom.
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Survivors teach the ‘experts’ about trafficking
Today is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, an annual awareness day about human trafficking worldwide.
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The second story window
Five teens quietly gathered while their seven friends slept in bunk beds around them. It was around 1 am and the girls, aged between 14 and 18, had a plan.
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Behind the scenes of raid missions
Kicking down doors and wrestling pimps to the floor are a couple of movie-like moments people might imagine when thinking about a raid mission by Destiny Rescue. While our rescue agents have stormed houses with firearms, missions can best be described as careful and calculated and most lack this expected blockbuster appeal.
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Trafficking ring unmasked in quiet neighbourhood
Early this month, Destiny Rescue and the country’s law enforcement rescued 20 females, including two minors, after discovering they were being held in a house and sold for sex to customers who made online bookings.
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The women of the frontlines
Our border agents in Nepal are all women, fighting to rescue girls a stride away from misery.
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Daily life at our home in Cambodia
The daily routine of our residential home is not exclusive to those living in the dorm rooms upstairs. Survivors in community care within commuting distance attend our classes in the home and are just as much a part of the family.
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The escape artist: Sonali’s rescue story
To rescue a child, Destiny Rescue sometimes needs to get creative.
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Tara’s Story: 17-year-old is the first rescue at newly-opened border station
Tara is seventeen years old and lives with her parents and siblings in rural central Nepal. She attended school through the eighth grade until she had to drop out to help her parents at home.
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Fourteen-year-old girl safe because of agent’s creativity
Destiny Rescue’s rescue agents normally go undercover, run surveillance or interview travellers at a border to rescue exploited children, but occasionally they must get creative or, in this case, musical.
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Church partnership extends reach of community care
Destiny Rescue is partnering with a church in northern Thailand to bring our empower and health education program to survivors enrolled in community care.
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Celebrate her journey | International Women’s Day 2021
International Women's Day is described as, “A global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.” Together, we celebrate the efforts and achievements of the strong women and girls in our midst.
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Philippines raid followup: survivors finding justice
In the Philippines, Destiny Rescue not only frees girls from sex trafficking but also helps them find justice. Check back in on a case from December 2020.
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From civil war to the pandemic: explore Nepal’s struggle to fight sex trafficking
Context is the key that unlocks the answers to successfully fighting sex trafficking. Take a deep dive into Nepal's history and culture and learn more about the vital role border rescue plays in our fight to end child sex trafficking.
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Traffickers try new tactics to exploit two girls
Agents are up against new challenges as traffickers pull out all the stops hoping to sneak girls across the border and into a life of exploitation
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Pandemic job loss: impact on human trafficking
Millions of people worldwide are sexually exploited each year by either being sold for sex, forced to marry a stranger or abused by a family member. This is a crisis that is expected to worsen in the wake of Covid-19.
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Celebrating 751 rescues in 2020
The global sex industry is an adaptable evil. As it evolves to feed an unabated demand around the world, our organization is continuously facing new challenges to fight child sex trafficking.
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Four new border stations open, 39 more lives rescued so far
Announcing new border stations and plans for even more expansion soon!
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Rescue surge: 33 people rescued across four countries in four days
Amidst the difficulties of this year, Destiny Rescue was able to rescue 33 people across four countries in four days. This latest surge of rescue is incredibly encouraging.
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Rescue agents in two countries team up on notorious trafficker
Three girls left home without telling anyone where they were going, if not for the collaboration of two teams of Destiny Rescue agents, they could have been gone forever.
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The girl who rescued herself: Malee’s story
Malee heard about Destiny Rescue from her close friend, next, she made a decision that would change the path of her life forever.
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Never give up: Agent finds missing child
Luma, a single mother of three children, approached police with news of her missing 17-year-old daughter. With the station busy and officers overwhelmed by their already -strenuous workload, her report was brushed aside.
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Nary’s new beginning
In January, government officials handed Destiny Rescue’s social workers a troubling case. Nary was living with her impoverished family while being exploited by a man who, as of last month, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his crimes.
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Mother and daughter rescued at the border
With the promise of love and marriage dancing in her mind, Nepal woman Kaya was embarking on a journey to a new country with her supposed fiance.
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Operation Corso
“I think this is a set up” was the last text message the Destiny Rescue operative received from the pimp they had been tracking down for a long time.
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Rescuing in the Time of COVID-19
With much of the world coming to a halt from the abrupt effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, safe distancing is now the new normal—affecting all kinds of businesses, from big malls, restaurants, to bars, down to the dingiest brothels.
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COVID-19 Response: Food for Survivors
Our teams have been working hard to assemble and distribute food packs to those in need. These deliveries have brought crucial aid to desperate families and developed our relationships with key communities that will open doors for rescue opportunities.
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Soneeya’s Story
Twenty-one-year-old Soneeya* set out with her father to visit a neighboring city. She had no idea she was about to encounter the man who would turn out to be her trafficker.
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Adapting in Aftercare
COVID-19’s impact on our projects is different in each country. Destiny Rescue teams are adapting in innovative and meaningful ways to continue to carry out our mission on the ground.
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Toddler Rescued – Our First Cyber Case
In February, our teams, in coordination with multiple law-enforcement agencies, executed an operation that rescued a 2-and-a-half-year-old boy from a life of continued sexual exploitation.
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24 Girls Graduate Salon-Training Programs
These brave girls have overcome obstacles that would seem insurmountable to some. If you read closely you will see enormous victory in each of these quotes.
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Operation Domino
It took extensive planning and skilled teamwork. On an unassuming February night, our teams and law enforcement executed four raids in immediate succession.
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Moments From Vanishing
Four girls were rescued together at a border crossing. None of them had any idea that the bus they were on was about to cross the border into a different country.
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Together for ‘The One’
Recently, one of our operatives noticed suspicious activity while he was traveling. Some young men were taking staged photos of a teen girl and then left the area with her.
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Rescue Update: Sreva’s Story
As our agents were conducting their routine interviews at a key border crossing location they came across 18-year-old Sreva* traveling with a 21-year-old man.
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159 Women Rescued in Operation Trabaho
It took 36 hours of hectic planning and strategic logistics for Destiny Rescue Philippines and its partner government agency, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to stage the largest raid operation Destiny Rescue has ever undertaken.
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Achariya: Seamstress and Mother
Achariya is one of many girls who has come through Destiny Rescue’s program and has since gone on to flourish at this workplace. Read her story to freedom.
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Laekena: Salon Owner
It is 8:00 am on a Tuesday morning. She pulls back the large cream bi-folding doors that give her salon its indoor-outdoor flow.
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Best Friends Give Back
Chanchira*, 17, and Apichaya*, 16, came to Thailand’s Promise Home recently. Originally from the same hill tribe village, these two girls are friends who also worked together at the same bar.
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Side by Side: A Best Friend Rescue Story
Valerie* and Christina* were both young single mothers caught up in a life neither truly wanted. Coming from poor families with limited education, they had limited employment options.
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Sordid Shadows: How to Catch a Pimp
SBS Dateline recently joined Destiny Rescue’s Founder and President Tony Kirwan, along with our International Rescue Director, rescue team, and local law enforcement… on the sex-trade frontline in the Philippines.
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Child Rescue Rebrand for New Zealand
It’s with great excitement we announce that Destiny Rescue’s New Zealand branch has changed its name to Child Rescue New Zealand.
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Srey Ny: A Success Story
The counselor’s phone rang. Not sure who was calling, she answered immediately.
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Ripple Effect: One Girl, One Well One Village
Water. It’s such a simple thing, but often those of us who live in developed nations do not think about it.
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Imprisoned in Shame
Their minds replay what they have experienced; they are bound by their terrible secrets.
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Building Houses Building Lives
It was our privilege, our heart wrenching privilege, to send out a small band of volunteers to HELP build a house for a very poor village family in the hills of northern Thailand.
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Shattered Dreams…to Hope Again!
One young girl had a dream of becoming a nurse, but after her parents couldn’t afford to send her to school anymore, she had to look for a job away from home. Tragically, she was deceived and forced into the sex industry until…
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