Many of my friends know how passionate I am — but certainly not as active as I want to be — about the new Abolitionist movement against slavery worldwide. There are more slaves now on the planet than there ever has been. Many are here in the United States.

Facts: [UPDATE: Forgot to mention these are from Call And Response.]

• There are 27 million enslaved men, women and children in the world.
• Over 2.2 million children are sold into the sex trade every year.
• There are more slaves today than at any other time in history.
• In India children cost less than cattle.
• Their traffickers pocketed $32 billion last year alone.
• More profit than 499 of the Fortune 500.

I recently reconnected (thank you FaceBook) with Sarah Symons who went to my same high school (a quirky little school in the Detroit area called Roeper).

It took me a while, but I shortly learned that Sarah is the founder of The Emancipation Network.

TEN is an organization that Sarah founded with her husband based on a “conversion experience” she had that opened her eyes and changed her life. (The story is here.)

I just wanted to share Sarah’s work with some of my friends.