the Unexpressed Advantage

A fellow student at the college is starting an amazing new non-profit organization aimed at taking Vancouver prostitutes out of the inner city and placing them in Christian homes set up as transition houses. In Vancouver, like many urban areas, the lifestyle surrounding drugs and prostitution can get very ugly at times. Many of the women who find themselves in this situation are under the fear-motivated control of pimps who keep them locked up in the trade. Some are held captive by drug habits, and some of these women are literally held captive in locked rooms unable to leave except in order to go to work. Even if a woman wanted to leave the trade, in many cases she would feel trapped by her environment, unable to escape. If she did escape, there still would be no place to go. It’s a fairly big problem without many good solutions, yet this friend of mine told me the other day of a pretty impressive plan…