For
Sale: Human Body Parts
On a recent trip to India to visit our partners at Orphans Faith Home, our volunteer team was exposed to a real life horror story.
One evening our host, Bishop Babu, asked us to visit a village and “encourage the people” through an evening church service. He went on to explain that over the last month 6 children had been kidnapped from the surrounding area, stolen from their homes in the night. The families were understandably upset and frightened. Our job was to bring a message of hope, pray over the village, and build up their courage and faith in the Lord.
At first we assumed that the children were being taken and sold for slave labor or perhaps being trafficked into the sex trade. But when we inquired further the truth was staggering. These thieves are stealing the children to be sold and killed for their body parts!
The black market for human organs is big business in India. In 1994 the Indian government banned the purchase and re-sale of human organs, but India’s poor and desperate are taken advantage of by thugs willing to pay upwards of $1,000 for a kidney. Much more than the average Indian laborer could earn in an entire year. And if you can kidnap your donor there is pure profit to be made.
Children are prized for their eyes, hearts, and
kidneys. Harvested organs can net the 
middlemen $20,000 or more. The recipients
are often people who are taking advantage of India’s ‘medical
tourism’, where major surgeries, too expensive in western countries,
are done at lower costs and for the right amount of money you
can be put on the short list for a major organ transplant.
It is estimated that over one million children have been stolen in the last 20 years. Many come from corrupt orphanages where children are handed over through fake adoption processes only to be sold for their body parts.
India Partners is committed to helping the villages around the Orphans Faith Home educate the families and children on how to remain safe from the clutches of these black market thieves. Working with the Orphans Faith Home staff and pastoral team, we are spreading the word about child protection throughout the villages.
You can help! Please pray that no more children will be lost in this nightmare and please consider a gift to our Child Protection Fund to ensure that more children and families will be reached through education and awareness building.
Our initial goal is to raise $1,000 to educate 1,000 children how to be safe. If we raise more, we will set a higher goal to help protect more children.
Thanking your in advance for your prayers
and partnership,
Kaytie Fiedler, Regional Representative
Eaten Alive: A War on Worms
“Does it his tummy hurt when he eats?” The momma nodded as
the translator asked the question in Telugu. I watched as the concerned parent
gently rubbed her hand on her son’s distended belly and then reached
up to smooth his brittle hair that had turned from jet black
to reddish brown, a sure sign of malnutrition.
This child, along with hundreds of others we saw in our medical camp that day, was being eaten alive. His village had rice and curry, but he did not get the benefit of it. Hundreds of worms had infested his belly and every time he ate the parasites robbed him of the nutrition he desperately needed.
Every day around the world parasites condemn millions of impoverished children to a life of sickness. They suffer from constant hunger, stunted growth, weight loss, anemia, diarrhea, and other symptoms, that make them susceptible to diseases that can lead to death.
India Partners has waged a ‘war on worms’ to help obliterate this problem. An inexpensive, harmless tablet taken twice a year has proven to keep children worm-free.
In a matter of days India Partners is sending another team to visit our partners in west and east India. They are armed with 20,000 de-worming pills. Children and adults will receive treatment for only $.03 a pill.
That’s right, $.03. Imagine having a life-threatening condition cured for 3 pennies! In addition to de-worming medication our team will bring other life-giving medicines purchased by India Partners at a steep discount from a licensed pharmaceutical partner in the states.
You can help sponsor our efforts to build up our partners’ pharmacies.
For a donation of any amount you can improve the health and well
being of children and adults suffering from unnecessarydiseases.
Fighting with you for a healthier India,
Kaytie
Fiedler, Regional Representative
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