Many people see poverty in third world nations as a blemish on the human race. As proof that although our efforts are well intentioned in many regards they are severely lacking. Recently at a coffee shop we all got into a deep intellectual discussion on a topic of Africa and poverty. Then we discussed Haiti, Indonesia and other third world countries, the very bottom of the third world, where things might be getting better, but you could hardly tell unless someone had pointed out exactly where they were better and you would hate to think how they were ever any worse.

One gentleman in the group started explaining what he had seen while working in a large NGO overseas and some of the horrors seemed to really have moved him. His shocking comments on the problems with the human sex trade and the near slavery he witnessed was pretty alarming. After he spoke I said;