“How awfully fine he looked! A regular landlord with clean linen and swell shoes!  They were no common stuff!  His wife, at all events,...

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Gandhi Gandhi was...

“Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.” ― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural...

"Thunderously, unarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper throwers,...

In my next series of blogs titled “Looking Back,” I'll be tracing our beginnings in the city of Mumbai during our time with IJM.  I want...

When men of honour persist, and men of power choose to act, the practice of putting girls into prostitution will change.

“Often, I still curse my mother. Because of that woman, my life has been wrecked.” 'But how could you do that (dedicate your daughters)...

“As I hear your story, your voice sounds a little jaded, but I also hear you have hope. Most people doing this work are disillusioned...

The workshop is bursting with creativity and purpose.  We try embroidering tiny flowers onto silk framed in a hand-hammered earring hoop. 

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" Amos 5:24 I love the Bible for many things, not least...

“I never met with a slave who could tell me how old he was.” (My Bondage and My Freedom, Fredrick Douglas) It's 10:20 pm and Greg,...

For though, seduced and led astray, Thoust travell'd far and wander'd long, Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that...

Update from Greg - Freedom Firm Communications At the beginning of every year in Freedom Firm, we establish our goals for the year to...

January Journeys: Chaos in the Workshop

“If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end,...

“I learned the hard lesson that all sense of control was an illusion, and that though my dreams for the freedom of girls were good, there...

Have you ever wanted to know what happens to girls after they are rescued?  What do their lives look like a year after rescue, two years,...

The Genesis of Freedom Firm

Greg and I had just moved to Ooty after 5 years of what I call my “wilderness” years, in the heart of the teeming metropolis of Mumbai....

We like to think of forced child prostitution in uglier terms; beatings, cowering girls. But at Diana, there's a gloss over the whole thing.