December 2022 Issue
by Jonathan Spencer, President & Founder Hi Friends, As 2022 draws to a close, New Horizons’ Board, together with our staff and girls in India, want to extend our gratitude and best wishes to you for a blessed holiday season and a Happy New Year. Last month I had the privilege of spending a week […]
November 2022 Issue
by Mike Graves, Vice President, Secretary Exciting news!! We are in the midst of our YE financial campaign and have been blessed with a commitment from the “Friends of New Horizons House” to double donations postmarked or otherwise donated by November 29th. The “Friends of New Horizons House” have pledged up to $50,000 for this matching […]
October 2022 Issue
by Jonathan Spencer, President & Founder Hi Friends, On March 15, 2018, the Times of India reported that 400,000 people had been trafficked from the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh the previous year including a substantial number of children under the age of 16. In addition to the traditional red-light districts, dance bars, spas, and massage […]
September 2022 Issue
by Tim Hillmer, Board Member In 2016 I traveled to southern India with Jon Spencer, the founder of New Horizons House, in order to visit the NHH facility and participate in a dedication ceremony for the new buildings. This was my first trip to India as a NHH board member, and I felt called to make […]
August 2022 Issue
Social Media in Human Trafficking Recruitment Social Media has impacted almost every aspect of our modern world, and it is now playing a major role in the recruitment of human trafficking victims. Traffickers adapted to lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic by switching to online methods of recruitment. In the US, analysis of the National Human […]
Jasmine
There were three of us girls, and at 16, I was the youngest. Ma is dead, and Da remarried, so mostly we just took care of ourselves. Eventually, both of my sisters got married and then I was really on my own. I stopped going to school and just stayed home. I didn’t know what […]
Diya
My favorite part about New Horizons House is that I get to have so many friends. I was an only child, so I spent a lot of time playing by myself when I was growing up and I always wished I had other girls around, especially after mother died. After that happened, father got a […]
Anushka
I used to have three sisters, but not anymore. My parents loved alcohol more than they loved us, and papa sold my two older sisters so that he could get more money to buy cheap liquor for him and mama. My older sisters were harassed sexually by the mean people papa sold them to, and […]
Kavya
When father found out that mother was working as a prostitute, he just left. One day he was there, and the next he was gone. How he has a new family and he doesn’t think of us anymore. For a while, it was just my brothers and my mother and me. But my mother was […]
Aarohi
After my parents got divorced, me and two of my sisters moved with our mama to Chinthalapudi. My other sister had some psychological problems, so she stayed with our papa … for a while, anyway. I guess she ran away from him eventually. Anyway, once we arrived in our new village, mama arranged for me […]