What you will NOT see on our website are photos and stories for the majority of the youths served by GIVE – MENTOR – LOVE Foundation (GML), because they are ‘protected’ minors and victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Honestly, their photos would fail to tug at your heart strings… most of these youths are angry, rebellious, and distrusting because of the trauma, abuse and neglect they have suffered. Think of what it is like to be a 12-year-old child raped 8 to 12 times a night to fatten her Pimp’s bankroll; or a youth living in a gang-infested neighborhood ignored and neglected by a drug-using parent having to navigate through every day of life to survive. Wouldn’t you be angry, too?
These are just some of the victims we serve, and we do not use the term “victim” in the popular sense of calling someone a victim. They are innocents truly victimized because they are exploited, physically and sexually abused, neglected, unloved and misguided.
We GIVE, MENTOR and LOVE unconditionally to change their attitudes towards life, their desire to live, and direct them on a path to become independent, thriving adults. Otherwise, they become just another statistic in the count of homeless, addicts, prostitutes, and gang members on the streets.
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