My name is Kristi Buccheri and I am currently trying to put together an informational DVD to raise support and awareness about human trafficking. My husband is enrolled in a program for aviation and maintenance. Once this program is completed we are hoping to use aviation to combat human trafficking.

As we have never been on the field, we do not have any personal photographs of trafficked women and children. This is why I am writing you. There is a photograph on your website detailing child prostitution which I believe will make an incredible impact in our DVD. I would like to request permission to use this photo in our DVD and possibly on our website.

Please feel free to contact me at jeep_girl2@yahoo.com.

Thank you so very much for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards,

Kristi Buccheri.

Thanks for sharing your stories. I can only imagine the heartbreak and horror you experienced. I appreciate your heart and your work and I pray that God would open the right doors for your vision and mission to come into full fruition! Thanks for your compassionate and enraged heart! May God use your work to bless, encourage and provide a path for many women!

DeAnza

ADavis- Thanks for the support! I agree, it is on occasion, cringe-worthy to witness the contradiction between the desperate situation at hand and the self-appointed white knight there to make it all ok. All while making time to get in that perfect digital shot of said knight cuddling a malnourished baby.

But- with all things in life there will be insincerity… and at least we can count on the good news that the vast majority involved in international (and local) work are convicted, honest people with huge, bleeding hearts.

@Lisa- Your comment brought hope to my heart. Thank you for the support- you should know that when I was at the AFESIP shelter I asked Joleene what the girls felt about us being there and she told me- “they feel comforted. Comfort at the idea that people outside of Cambodia care what is happening to them.” Your support comforts these girls Lisa.

Rachel- Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Travel makes us wiser, if less happy”.

Glad you connected with the last bit, it was a little embarrassing to admit but honestly how I feel.

Thank you so much for sharing the stories of these young women. It is so important for us to be confronted with these truths, to be reminded of how other people live and how much they need our help.

I loved this part: “I wasn’t crying because I had suddenly found the perfect dramatic moment to indulge my humanitarian side in. I was crying because I finally realized it wasn’t about that. My desire to help this situation isn’t glamorous- it doesn’t make me feel like Brangelina. Not anymore anyway…”

Well said.