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■■school, college, church, club etc. andinvite a member of an antitraffickingorganisation to discusshuman trafficking;Advocate that the Irish Governmentkeep its commitment to make justand sustainable global developmenta priority.In your parish: listen to God's call topromote social justice locally andglobally; pray for trafficked personsand all who suffer because ofinjustice.(Our thanks to Sr. Joan Roddy for thisArticle and Acknowledgements toIntercom, October 2012)The following is from Howard Campbell's:'We are Trafficked People’:“Bought, sold over and over andover...We are powerless.You decide which bed tonight.We are powerless.You decide which countrytomorrow.We are powerless.You decide which torture next.Who will cross the road to holdour bruised souls?”Why human trafficking?What to do?Nobody chooses to be trafficked. Evenwhen being trafficked, many think theyare travelling freely. Traffickers, often inthe person of relatives, family friends,neighbours, present themselves as trustworthy,with offers of a better future life.Causes of human trafficking are not difficultto identify. It is recognised that onereason for the existence of trafficking isthat men demand to buy sex. Wherethere is poverty, war, violence, gender inequality,people are vulnerable to exploitation…in particular women andchildren have little alternative but to resortto traffickers: ...let us call on everyperson of good will to engage in creatinga fairer international social order, so thatpoverty and underdevelopment cease toprovide opportunities for traffickers tofind their victims. (Cardinal Turkson).24‘Stop the Traffik’ is a global coalition,which works to help stop the sale of people,to see traffickers prosecuted and toprotect the victims of human trafficking.You too will help to spread this messageif you:■ Become better informed about thereality of trafficking in persons andraise awareness of it■■■Lobby politicians to introducelegislation that targets demand, thuscriminalizing the buying of sexualservices;Become alert to the presence oftrafficked persons and the activity oftraffickers in your neighbourhood;Arrange an event in your workplace,In particular, where there is poverty, women and children are vulnerableto exploitation by traffickers.25
Mill Hill - TheNext GenerationBy Nzenze Emmanuel Epie-Alobwede[Nzenze Emmanuel, the author of this article, is a Mill Hill studentfrom Cameroon, who is in Formation in Kenya. Here he describes howhe came to join Mill Hill, and explains why the next generation ofmissionaries has a truly international outlook.]From One of TheNext GenerationMY NAME is NzenzeEmmanuel, and I’ma Mill HillMissionary student, nowin India for pastoralexperience. I was bornin 1979 in South WestCameroon in Central Africa. I amthe third child of a very humbleand loving family of six children.My dad, Epie James, is a retiredcivil servant and my mum, LombeLucy, is a Catholic Primary Schoolteacher in Buea.In our world today, people are cravingfor true love, peace and unity. However,there is a lack of a proper understandingof God’s will for the human race, whichis unity of all peoples; this lack gives riseto conflicts and more division.Our goal as missionaries in today’sworld is to promote acts of true love inwhich the holistic wellbeing of the personis central. These acts impress on thehearts of all people a desire to accommodateone another as children of God inlove. This will happen despite all oursocio-cultural, ethnic and religious diversities,bearing in mind that God alwaysprecedes us wherever we are sent.As missionaries we are thereforecalled to lead God’s children everywhereNzenze Emmanuelinto a true conversion of heartso they can all live together inlove, peace and harmony. Sotoday’s missionaries are calledto be channels of God’s willand God’s love to humankind.As a missionary student, Ineed to be open to the kind oftraining that I am receiving. I need toallow myself to be led by God’s hand inall that I am engaged in.I know I am no superman to changethe whole world, but I know I can, in myown little way, through acts of kindnessguided by the Spirit of God, transformthe little world I find myself in, into aworld united by true love and service forone another, as the Mill Hill motto, ‘Tolove and to serve’, instructs us.The training I am receiving will bevery handy in meeting all the challengesthat face us in the world today. First ofall, I have been trained to know myselfbetter and be a more integrated and responsibleperson, to develop a personalspirituality which means I can have apersonal relationship with God ‘in whomwe live and move and have our being’ -from whom we gain our strength.I am also open to diversity because Ilive, work and study in a multi-racial,ethnic, cultural, social and religious setup.Additionally, I am given the opportunityto work with young people, the27
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