Last week's speaker, Darren Reynolds from
Destiny Rescue Australia, gave a very confronting presentation on "
their mission to rescue children from sexual exploitation and human trafficking and help them stay free". Following Darren's presentation we have a motion for the next board meeting to donate $1800 to help fund a child recue.
Darren has also followed up with the following message to Peter McEwen.
"Hi Peter,
Thanks again for the fabulous opportunity to come and share with your club yesterday morning. I was made to feel welcome from the moment I arrived until the moment I left. Your club members engaged beautifully with a difficult subject to hear about and I know many were deeply touched as they thought about their own children and grand-children.
As a follow-up to the presentation, I just wanted to give you the latest figures on our rescues.
Our last published update shows that we are sitting on 2,038 rescues for the year. This is 817 rescues ahead of the same time last year so we’re very excited about setting another record this year as we head towards our goal of 3,080 rescues for 2022.
In the last three reporting weeks, we rescued 75 individuals in the Dominican Republic, 70 individuals in Thailand, 49 in Nepal, 26 in Cambodia, 21 in Uganda and 11 in undisclosed locations (areas we work which can’t make public). Most of the rescues from Thailand were liberated from labour trafficking which has led to a higher than usual amount of males being rescued (198 Females, 55 Males across all project nations). It was unusual too in that, given our focus on rescuing children, we had 71 that were under 18, 120 that were young adults and 42 that were 25 years old and over.
So far this year we have conducted 79 raids, had 8 establishments closed down and 109 persons have been arrested as a result of our work.
And I’m pleased to announce that we have just crossed a significant milestone! With the latest figures coming through we can confirm that we have achieved more than 10,000 rescues since 2011!!!
Please feel free to share these figures with your club members if you see fit and feel free to celebrate the 10,000 milestone with us!!
As mentioned, we would love any club members who are interesting supporting our work to become Rescue Partners and would also appreciate any contribution that the club could make. Having said that, we are grateful for any chance to share about our work, and it was privilege to have that opportunity with your club. We so honour the work that your club does in our community and beyond."
