{"id":5240,"date":"2018-12-17T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:49:20","slug":"freedom-is-possible-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchalifekids.org\/freedom-is-possible-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FREEDOM:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the quality or state of being free, such as:<\/p>\n<p>a:\u00a0the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action<\/p>\n<p>b:\u00a0liberation\u00a0from slavery or restraint or from the power of another<\/p>\n<p>c:\u00a0the quality or state of being\u00a0exempt\u00a0or released usually from something onerous<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every single person and child should be entitled to live a life where freedom is reality, not a dream. Thousands of children in Ghana have their freedom and childhood stripped away from them at such a young age. Parents who cannot afford to care for their children often sell them to masters in slave trades like fishing, farming, and domestic. Each Touch A Life child has been RESCUED from a childhood where they had no idea what freedom was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5243\" src=\"https:\/\/touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18.12-Sarah-Freedom-End-of-Year-2-web-1024x589.jpg\" alt=\"18.12 Sarah - Freedom - End of Year - 2 web\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" \/>During a recent visit to the Care Center, we approached the children with a question that no one should\u00a0ever\u00a0have to ask: Since you have been a part of the TAL family, what are you free from? We left a chalkboard next to the basketball court, and the answers were heart-breaking. Child labor, slavery, hunger, danger, sickness, fear, darkness, torture, anxieties, hatred, rejection, unrecognition, suffering, and failure were among the painful words the children wrote. The unfortunate reality for these children was not a childhood of freedom, but a childhood of pain and darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Living in a country where freedom is the firm foundation, it is hard to fathom\u00a0how\u00a0hard life was for these children before they were RESCUED by TAL. The good news is that now\u00a0these children are in the care of the TAL family, they have experienced freedom as a reality. We asked them a second question: Now that you are a part of the TAL family, what are you free to? The answers mended our hearts and warmed our souls. Peace, education, play, live, dance, sing, pray, grow, change the world, fulfill my purpose, make a difference, and to be loved by God were among the responses.<\/p>\n<p>The TAL mission is to RESCUE, RENEW, and RESTORE by developing creative ways to bring healing and empowerment to those who are suffering, exploited, and at-risk around the world. Freedom is only the beginning to the renewal and restoration of a TAL child.<\/p>\n<p>With your help \u2013\u00a0freedom is possible! We want to make sure that freedom is available to every exploited child. For more information on how TAL&#8217;s Mission has impacted these children and how you can help continue the mission, visit:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/TouchALifeKids.org\/Impact\">TouchALifeKids.org\/Impact<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Mast<\/strong><br \/>\nMarketing Partner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREEDOM:\u00a0the quality or state of being free, such as: a:\u00a0the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b:\u00a0liberation\u00a0from slavery or restraint or from the power of another c:\u00a0the quality or state of being\u00a0exempt\u00a0or released usually from something onerous \u00a0 Every single person and child should be entitled to live a life where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - 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