Project Meridian Foundation
Feature FoundationI said goodbye, then ended the call on my cell. I had just finished talking to Nathan Wilson, thinking I would "gather some helpful information" for The Fabulous Woman e-magazine. Now, I sat stunned. As a strong advocate for women, I had heard of Nathan and his non-profit organization and how he has even spoken in the Senate as an advocate for women. Nathan was already familiar with TheFabulousWoman.com, so I didn't find it necessary to tell him that our mission is to provide a path to empowerment, enrichment, and education for women. Our camaraderie was instantaneous, as we are both men concerned about the oppression of women. But, that was half an hour earlier. Now, I found my mind shocked by the facts of Nathan's revelation.
You see, when I first spoke to Nathan Wilson, the CEO and Founder of Project Meridian, I was just as naïve as most. I've heard in the news about the sex trade, slavery, and prostitution of children and women in foreign countries. Yet, I thought that we, in the land of the free, were somehow immune from this. I was wrong.
According to the CIA, 100,000 victims per year have been enslaved and lured away either through cunning deceit or trickery. Many were given the promise of attending college or lured with the hope of a wonderful job. Instead, they were forced into the sex trade in the United States. They found themselves being raped for the profit of others.
Individuals roam across our country to abduct young girls wherever they can find them. They are abducted from shopping malls, fast food restaurants, and outside other restaurants and bars. They are lured with promises of a future in modeling, acting or some other glamorous career. The number one state for these abductions is Kansas. Runaways, leaving home in hopes of being set free with a better life, find themselves instead enslaved. This is our issue. This is our concern.
Nathan stated that girls between the ages of 9 to 14 years old are being sold into the Sex Trade in Las Vegas, Nevada. In one documentary, 148 girls were saved by Federal Law Enforcement from being sold for sex every day for $400.00 for a half-hour of abuse. These children were being raped for profit between 10 and 30 times a day.
Project Meridian Foundation has several missions. It is to identify, protect and rehabilitate victims under the name of Operation Safe House. It will also assist in the identification, capture and prosecution of the those who target our children and women for their own profit while advising and instructing International, Federal, State, and Local law enforcement agencies within the scope of human trafficking.
Read the truth for yourself.
Go to ProjectMeridianFoundation.org. As long as one child or woman is enslaved in America, none of us are truly free.