Here is a short extract from the novel ‘The Garden of Sparkling Delight,’ by Deborah Varen.
‘What’s the matter?’ he enquired raising his voice above the level of the music and the chatter of the other passengers on the bus. Yara looked at him frowning. ‘We’ll soon be at Guilherme’s village,’ she replied. ‘What if he gets on?’ Carlos smiled a grim smile, and lifted his fist , waving it near his face. ‘It would be a pleasure to meet that rat. I hope he does,’ he said fiercely. Seeing that his words had put her mind at rest he sat back in his seat and went to sleep, only waking when they drew into the bus station in Beleza.”
A few months ago I was listening to a programme on the BBC and a sentence jumped out at me . The presenter said, ‘Books invite you to share the consciousness of another person.’ The above novel does just that. The girl on the bus is a young Brazilian called Yara who has been caught and used as a sex slave by Guilherme, but has escaped. She is now returning to rescue her friend who is imprisoned in the local town in a brothel. As the reader reads her story and the description of what she suffered day by day, they share the consciousness of Yara and begin to understand her feelings as she is abused on a daily basis. We can never entirely put ourselves into another person’s mind but through books we can come as near to it as is humanely possible. It is only then that we are motivated to try and alter their plight and the plight of those 30million plus slaves in our world today and there is a lot you can do.
Please read the book.
You can download a free audio version from this site just use this link to the free audio, The Podcast or go to the links at the top of this WEB page and select 'Tis The Podcast'. There you will find access to the 21 half hours episodes to listen on-line or download for later listening and sharing. The novel can be obtained from Amazon for a modest sum in paperback and on the Kindle e-reader.
The novel tells the story of one young girl as you travel with her through the situation that caused her to be tricked into sexual slavery and the dreadful life she had thereafter, until her rescue. Please read it. No money is made out of this book and you can listen to it for free from this site or on You Tube. The novel can be obtained from Amazon for a modest sum in paperback and on the Kindle e-reader. You can use this link to the free audio, The Podcast or go to the links at the top of this WEB page and select 'Tis The Podcast'. There you will find access to the 21 half hours episodes to listen on-line or download for later listening and sharing.
For up to date information from those working to end this trade and support victims contact:-
ECPAT www.ecpat.org.uk [End Child Pornography and Trafficking] is active in the UK and several other countries. It specialises is lobbying, campaigning and supporting rescued slaves.
The A21 Campaign www.thea21campaign.org - this is a global NGO that fights to abolish injustice in the 21st century. Its focus is on those affected by human trafficking and it runs prevention and protection schemes throughout Europe, Australia and USA.
The Salvation Army www.salvationarmy.org.uk/modern-slavery/am-i-safe-now
Stop the Traffik www.stopthetraffik.org - A global movement of individuals communities and organizations fighting to prevent human trafficking around the world.
Meninadanca www.meninadanca.org - This society fights child prostitution along the remote arterial highways of Brazil. They also provide a place of safety where rescued girls can go and be rehabilitated.
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