On the evening of April 14th nearly 300 teenage girls were abducted from their boarding school in the small farming community of Chabok in Northeastern Nigeria. These were young girls in pursuit of an education, in pursuit of making a life for themselves, and in pursuit of their dreams to […]
Author: Mandy Dobbelmann
The Super Bowl: a sex trafficker’s playground
In just a few short days hundreds of thousands of visitors will flood to the MetLife stadium in New Jersey for Super Bowl XLVIII. Many visitors will be coming to show their pride and cheer on their favourite team, but tragically, thousands more will be coming for something entirely different. What […]
What I learned at a funeral
I sat in the second pew, holding back tears as I watched that familiar face disappear behind the lid of the casket. I glanced over at a grieving wife, son and daughter. I turned to look back again at the casket as the funeral director placed a large cascading bouquet […]
Why I stopped waiting for “the one”
Sixteen years ago I made a list of everything I wanted in a future husband. I kept the list hidden away in my journal and started my wait for “the one.” I had it all planned out. We would meet on some whimsical fall day, well into my college career. He would be […]
