Corona Virus causes customers to stay away from the brothels. For a short time at least, girls are not raped every night.

When the storm comes Will you reject the rain If it falls not soft If it falls not tame When the wind blows And calls your name Will you...

Displacement is real. The state of the uprooted is a true predicament. It’s the scream in the night, “I’m here but I’m not home.”

I’ve been using every spare moment granted to me here in India to “batten down the hatches” and to prepare for an unknown future.

I am on a tightrope, holding in one hand my desire to win this case, and in the other, the knowledge that this may be our time to leave.

Today, if I am not given a stay order in the Madras High court, I will be deported.

The truth about living in suspension is that there is no new life I am adjusting to, no old life that I can guarantee.

Days dragged by, I stayed with kind friends and kept out of sight, warned by my lawyer and others to stay hidden.

The palace felt like a pause between my past and future, a memory of a forgotten time pressed against the windowpane of a modern landscape.

The outcome of this fight will have far reaching implications in our own lives as well as the lives of other foreigners in India.

Years ago we laid rough granite blocks (not exactly pavers) as steps, walls, pathways and patio. We filled the cracks with concrete and...

At six-thirty yesterday morning, I awoke to the sound of my Labrador Waza barking furiously just outside my window.  Through the muddle...

Celebrating ten years of Freedom Firm’s Growth “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...

Remember that you molded me like clay. Job 10:9 Recently a group of designers from Texas and some Ruhamah Designs staff and I met up for...

My passion to see young girls rescued from sex-trafficking began before I ever met a girl who fit that description. It began when I was...

“Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed whether this or that, or...

“But it seems to me that to put one's self in the second place is the whole significance of our life.” (On the Eve, Ivan Sergeevich...

“I am in all the places in which I've left my heart." Marina Sofia We've had the luxury of keeping our four children in close proximity...

I remember many years ago, in 2006 when Rani was one of the first girls in our Aftercare home.  Already her CD4 count was low enough for...

I am touched at her faith in us, that we will do the right thing and care for her children when she is gone.  Am I personally ready to...

“How awfully fine he looked! A regular landlord with clean linen and swell shoes!  They were no common stuff!  His wife, at all events,...

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Gandhi Gandhi was...

“Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.” ― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural...

"Thunderously, unarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper throwers,...

In my next series of blogs titled “Looking Back,” I'll be tracing our beginnings in the city of Mumbai during our time with IJM.  I want...

When men of honour persist, and men of power choose to act, the practice of putting girls into prostitution will change.

“Often, I still curse my mother. Because of that woman, my life has been wrecked.” 'But how could you do that (dedicate your daughters)...

“As I hear your story, your voice sounds a little jaded, but I also hear you have hope. Most people doing this work are disillusioned...

The workshop is bursting with creativity and purpose.  We try embroidering tiny flowers onto silk framed in a hand-hammered earring hoop. 

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" Amos 5:24 I love the Bible for many things, not least...

“I never met with a slave who could tell me how old he was.” (My Bondage and My Freedom, Fredrick Douglas) It's 10:20 pm and Greg,...

For though, seduced and led astray, Thoust travell'd far and wander'd long, Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that...

Update from Greg - Freedom Firm Communications At the beginning of every year in Freedom Firm, we establish our goals for the year to...

January Journeys: Chaos in the Workshop

“If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end,...

“I learned the hard lesson that all sense of control was an illusion, and that though my dreams for the freedom of girls were good, there...

Have you ever wanted to know what happens to girls after they are rescued?  What do their lives look like a year after rescue, two years,...

The Genesis of Freedom Firm

Greg and I had just moved to Ooty after 5 years of what I call my “wilderness” years, in the heart of the teeming metropolis of Mumbai....

We like to think of forced child prostitution in uglier terms; beatings, cowering girls. But at Diana, there's a gloss over the whole thing.