We have an exciting event to share with you today! Recently the Bar Harbor Rotary Club in conjunction with Mount Desert Island High School Interact Club and the Red Empress Foundation held a screening of the movie SOLD. This movie is based on the true narrative of a young Nepalese woman's experience in an Indian brothel. Based on a best selling novel by Patricia McCormick, SOLD shares the very real horrors of child trafficking and will hopefully help to gain international momentum against this prevalent issue. Through the sharing of this story with a large movie audience the Bar Harbor event not only educated a group of people about a little known issue through a panel discussion after the film but also raised a significant sum that has been donated to Project Starfish! We will take this with us to the Akha Academy in Mae Sai in November to improve its infrastructure and also for equipment for a pop up dental clinic. This will make a massive difference to the children staying at the center now and in the future! Well done and a big thank you to this team for their achievement and sharing their success with us. It is clear that no matter where you are in the world, America or New Zealand, we can team together and make a difference to the number of children caught into trafficking throughout the world. We hopefully will be hosting our own screening of SOLD in Dunedin in the coming months so keep posted and in the meantime we have more late night sausage sizzles booked in for the University of Otago's re-orientation next week, check them out on our calendar! Here's the fantastic team at their event:
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July 2018
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