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POPSThe dental trick After 11 years of performing the “dental trick”, as it is known, her worst fears were realised. A sharp pain in her jaw as she turned in circles around the big top made her relax her bite. She plunged more than 30ft and was taken to hospital unconscious.
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POPSFreedom Award Winner: Friends of Orphans Friends of Orphans, founded by Ricky Richards, received the Harriet Tubman Community and Reintegration Award. The Freedom Awards are underwritten by the John Templeton Foundation.
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POPSThere are more slaves today... ...than at any other time in history. Twice as many slaves as when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Our Congress just apologized for historical slavery in America, but what about the people in slavery today? I urge you to go to the website www.callandresponse.com and find out ways to respond, ways to act. Here is an opportunity to create hope and change. It isn't called Awarenessism, it's called Activism. Let's act.
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POPSSomaly Mam's story "Today sex-trade owners seek younger girls, as young as 4." Four? My daughter is four. Visit www.somaly.org to find out how to help. "We need the United States."
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POPSGanga's story She was sold into sexual slavery and once she escaped her family rejected her because she was a prostitute. I have no words for my anger here. Where would she be now if Shared Hope had not found her? Most likely dead, and unmourned.
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POPSShared Hope International Shared Hope International is having a reunion in India. Follow their journey on their travel blog. Or visit their main site to find out how you can help.
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POPSStop the Traffik Campaign to end people trafficking. Check out this page to see the people in action.
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POPSModern day slavery Check the source for ways to help end modern day slavery. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.,
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POPSWilliam Wilberforce He spent most of his life fighting for social change. He spent 20 years leading the fight to abolish slavery in the British empire.