SACRED ROOTS FARM
Hope TAKES ROOT
We are building a long-term recovery program specifically designed for sexually exploited and trafficked women and their children on a working sustainable farm. We are utilizing the program material from the SA Foundation — an organization that has specialized in this area for over 27 years. Their program has a tried and proven success rate of over 70%. We will be establish this program on a working sustainable farm — the farm will serve as the context of emotional and spiritual healing as well as a place for development of life-skills.
Why?
As Christians, we believe that God takes desecrated people and restores them with hope because he has done that for us. We see these women, not as the transported, disconnected, adrift, and traded commodities — which they were — but as women that have divine beauty; a value that was so important that it was woven into the genealogy of Jesus Christ. We believe it is our role to hold that value for them until they can see it themselves. They are women of sacred roots.
““Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
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The problem
There are not enough long-term recovery homes for women who need a new start. We believe that healing takes time and space. Without a chance for real change, the cycle of oppression continues.
The Solution
Provide a refuge for healing on a farm. Allow the space, peace and relationships with animals to be part of the healing. Provide classes that both support the recovery from trauma, and equip the participants with essential life skills. Hold to a vision not of who they currently are, but of who they can become. Join us.