Monday, December 19, 2005

Fighting Slavery in Sudan


iAbolish.com shares the remarkable story of Brent Salsgiver, who in 2002 was a student at West Virginia Wesleyan College and what he did to help free people in slavery in Sudan:

CSI's John Eibner suddenly turned to Brent and asked him to address the crowd as it waited under the tree. Brent was stunned: "I didn't know what to say, and to be honest, I don't even remember exactly what I said. What can a 21-year-old kid from Pennsylvania possibly say to people who are just emerging from the worst kind of abuse. But I told them that people in America cared about them, and that I was going to bring their stories back with me to tell the world."

Read more here.