7 Continents.
What is 7 Continents?
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Every 7 Continents purchase has a story behind it. A story of empowered women. A story of triumph over abuse or abandonment. A story of ending the cycle of poverty and exploitation. Behind your 7 Continents product is a story that matters. Your 7 purchase makes you an ambassador for 7 Continents’ mission.
As people admire your purchase you can tell them about the story behind it. You can raise awareness about child trafficking and how organizations like CORM are working to end it. You can talk about how prevention is one key to ending exploitation, abuse, and trafficking. You’re not just a consumer of 7 Continents products, but you have become one of our greatest assets.
The women employed by 7 Continents are counting on you to spread the word about their story. Your purse or bracelet or accessory is much more than meets the eye. It represents a story. It represents a life changed.
For many years, City of Refuge Ministries has been working hard to liberate child slaves from the fishing industry along Ghana’s Lake Volta. Besides the physical rescue of child slaves, City of Refuge worked a great deal on educating people both in Ghana and abroad about the issues of trafficking in persons and motivating others to get involved in ending this injustice.
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As a ministry, it was decided to take another approach to ending child slavery in Ghana. We saw that the issue of child trafficking often stemmed from the poverty and vulnerability of single mothers who, often times, have no alternative but to give away their children in hopes that they would have a better life with someone else.
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This situation was making children a commodity, something to be sold and bought. With this issue more fully grasped, City of Refuge began to look at the problem of child trafficking in Ghana as a situation of supply and demand. The fisherman need a labor force (the demand of child slaves) to continue their fishing businesses, and mother’s need a way to provide for themselves (a supply of their children for the fishermen.)
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In order for us to end this cycle of the supply and demand, we had to address the issues of the vulnerable single mother. We do this by employing her at a fair wage, helping to provide a basic education for her through reading, writing, and financial classes, introduce her to the love of Jesus Christ through discipleship training, provide her support with her children, and empower her with leadership skills for the future.
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The Dilemma: 4 out of 5 orphans have 1 or both parents living. Poverty is responsible for 90% of children surrendered to orphanges. These are children with families, but whose parents cannot afford to care for them and see giving up their child as the only option.
7 Continents exists
to train and empower
vulnerable women to learn
a trade and income to
provide for themselves and
their families.
What can we do?
We can shop! Seriously, by choosing to spend our money smart, we get to purchase beautiful handmade one of a kind goods from Ghana AND support family preservation and single mother empowerment. It doesn't get better than that! Shop, spread the word, and share 7 Continents with your friends and family. We are also working to develop a house party kit in time for Christmas so you can host a group and provide an opportunity to purchase 7 Continents in a fun festive way!