Walking With Our Women: Sangeetha
“How awfully fine he looked! A regular landlord with clean linen and swell shoes! They were no common stuff! His wife, at all events,...
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Sep 28, 20153 min read
The Kings of Justice
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Gandhi Gandhi was...
Aug 6, 20153 min read
Looking Back: Who am I helping really?
“Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.” ― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural...
Jul 10, 20153 min read
Looking Back, The Rag Pickers
"Thunderously, unarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper throwers,...
Jun 25, 20154 min read
Looking Back: Arriving in Mumbai
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...
May 13, 20157 min read
Men of honour, men of power
When men of honour persist, and men of power choose to act, the practice of putting girls into prostitution will change.
Apr 20, 20154 min read
The Fatherless
“Often, I still curse my mother. Because of that woman, my life has been wrecked.” 'But how could you do that (dedicate your daughters)...
Apr 15, 20154 min read
Emerging from Disillusionment
“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...
Mar 23, 20154 min read
January Journeys: Breathing Dead Hippo
The workshop is bursting with creativity and purpose. We try embroidering tiny flowers onto silk framed in a hand-hammered earring hoop.
Mar 13, 20154 min read
January Journeys : They Dream of Acquittals
“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...
Mar 9, 20153 min read
January Journeys : We Dream of Justice
“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,...
Feb 26, 20153 min read
January Journeys : The Rescue
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...
Feb 13, 20152 min read
Tragedies, trials and victories!
Update from Greg - Freedom Firm Communications At the beginning of every year in Freedom Firm, we establish our goals for the year to...
Feb 6, 20154 min read
January Journeys: Chaos in the Workshop
January Journeys: Chaos in the Workshop
Jan 27, 20155 min read
A January Journey : Brave or Safe?
“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,...
Jan 19, 20154 min read
Following Rani: Part 4
“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...
Dec 1, 20144 min read
Following Rani: Part 1
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,...
Nov 21, 20144 min read
The seeds of Freedom Firm: Greg's Story
The Genesis of Freedom Firm
Jan 27, 20143 min read
A Vision Called Avalanche
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....
May 14, 20083 min read
Diana Bar: Beneath the Surface
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.
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