By Elesha Pimentel, Contributing Writer
Happy Giving Tuesday from your friends at One Bread Foundation!
The holidays are all about giving back to the community and Giving Tuesday full-heartedly builds upon this tradition with its own concept: radical generosity. Radical generosity is defined as “the concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable as the suffering of our own.” It’s a day that pushes people outside of the comfortable realm of “bystander.” It’s a worldwide movement celebrated in 70 countries. Anyone can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there are so many different ways to get involved. Here at One Bread Foundation, we invite you to do something good with us.
One Bread Foundation strives to advocate, raise awareness, and provide monetary support for the rehabilitation of child victims of sex trafficking in the United States. Though child sex trafficking is a tragedy that seems distant and small, it is growing larger each day. According to Liberate the Children, 25% of the 40 million people sex-trafficked globally are children. However, only 1-2% of these children are rescued from these sickly bonds of captivity. The children who are rescued are met with limited resources for rehabilitation. Every year many of us do little to help rehabilitate these children and simply continue on with our lives. Oblivious to this large statistic until it claims one of our own.
Today, we invite you to spend your Giving Tuesday with us. There are a variety of ways that we can work together to help these children. You can donate to our organization to help us financially support the rehabilitation of these children. Every dollar helps, and we appreciate donations of all sizes. You can share our posts and newsletters with friends and family members to spread awareness. A simple Facebook post or message to a friend does wonders to help us advocate for our cause and spread our reach.
Together we will embrace the concept of radical generosity and fight for the lost rights of these children. In the name of Giving Tuesday, the suffering of others is as intolerable as the suffering of our own.
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