We’d like to say Thank You all for coming out to Hidden Shackles. It was so amazing to see so many new faces who are interested in making an impact on this world. Over all we saw nearly 100 different faces over the course of three days and that is outstanding! Safely Home wouldn’t [...]
A Thank You Letter
Hidden Shackles: What You Don’t Know About Modern Day Slavery
Safely Home is throwing a Three day event featuring Hope for the Voiceless, Women and Risk and the Manasseh Project presentations as well as live music, free food, and a documentary showing titled SexandMoney: A National Search for Human Worth. RSVP Here: http://www.facebook.com/events/190404934405962/ We Hope to see you there! Andrew
Photo Opp!
RaeVee Photography, a Grand Rapids-based business that is run by a good friend of ours- Rachel Herbert- just posted some pictures from a shoot done last Tuesday! A group of our supporters and friends got together and took photos holding signs that either supported the Demi and Ashton Foundation’s “Real Men Don’t Buy Women” movement, [...]
Bravery Speaks Gold
Many activists want to take a front-line stance against justice and I do encourage anyone who feels the passion to do so! But this definitely isn’t always the safest path to take so I implore you to stay passion-filled and to explore different ways of fighting for justice. This woman’s story speaks miles of [...]
Lanthorn Coverage
The Lanthorn and Hannah Matro here at Grand Valley were insanely kind enough to write an article about Safely Home’s event “Hidden Shackles: What You Don’t Know About Human Trafficking” http://www.lanthorn.com/index.php/article/2012/03/safely “Although for most Americans the term “slavery” brings to mind a form of race-based enslavement no longer practiced, slavery is still a reality in [...]
Keeping Things Rolling
Coming off of spring break and rolling things off of this week of absence has been completely mind boggling. In less than two weeks Safely Home is hosting our first collaborative event called Hidden Shackles: What you don’t know about Human Trafficking. The purpose of the event is to generate conversation about human trafficking on [...]
Getting Started
We had our second February meeting yesterday and have really gotten the ball rolling on some upcoming fundraisers and our Hidden Shackles event coming up on March 26th-28th. (Save the date!) Please come out and support us this Saturday at our Safely Home Pool Tournament in Kirkhof! It’s going to run from 1-5 p.m. There’s a [...]