The White Umbrella: Walking with Survivors of Sex Trafficking

White, anadjective meaning "Free from spot or blemish": as "(1)" free from moral impurity INNOCENT "(2)" marked by the wearing of white by the woman as a symbol of purity.

Umbrella, anoun meaning: 1. A device for protection from the weather consisting of a collapsible, usually circular canopy mounted on a central rod, or 2. Something that covers or protects.

Every year over 100,000 girls in the United States are forced to do someone s sexual bidding. Most of them are between the ages of 9 and 19.

This is not some faraway, foreign problem. This is in our own neighborhoods, our own towns and cities.

Throughout these pages read the stories of these girls and the people who have come alongside them to hold the white umbrella of protection and purity over them on the road to restoration. See the need for these protecting, caring partners. Learn what it means to love and care for these survivors in action, prayer, and support.

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