Love146

A week into work and so far so good. To set the scene, a story.......

In 2002, the co-founders of Love146 traveled to Southeast Asia to determine how they could serve in the fight against child sex trafficking. In one experience, they were taken undercover to a brothel where they witnessed children being sold for sex.......

“We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass (who) all wore red dresses with a number pinned to their dress for identification. They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells of what a child should be. There was no light in their eyes..it had been taken from them. These children…raped each night… seven, ten, fifteen times. They were so young. Thirteen, eleven… it was hard to tell. Sorrow covered their faces...Except one girl. One girl who wouldn’t watch the cartoons. Her number was 146. She was looking beyond the glass....staring out at us with a piercing gaze. There was still fight left in her eyes. There was still life left in this girl…”

We have taken her number so that we remember why this all started. So that we must tell her story. It is a number that was pinned to one girl but that represents the millions enslaved. We wear her number with honor, with sorrow, and with a growing hope. Her story can be a different one for so many more.

Love is the foundation of our name because it is our motivating drive to end the trafficking and exploitation of children. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” We hold that to be true.

Rob Morris
President and Co-founder
www.love146.org/love-story/