By Logan Metzger, Iowa State Daily, December 11, 2019
One group in the Des Moines area is providing housing for abused and sexually-exploited women and their children.
This group is called Garden Gate Ranch. It is a faith-based Christian organization that provides housing and transitional services for the women and children impacted.
“God started to speak to me about human trafficking, which I knew so little about,” said Brenda Long, founder and executive director of Garden Gate Ranch. “I heard women say, ‘No one is looking for me,’ ‘No one cares,’ ‘They look right at me but don’t see me,’ ‘They don’t think I’m worth fighting for,’ ‘Will somebody come? Will someone help?’ I felt their pain that day, and I felt God’s pain. At that moment, I knew these were the ones I was to help and that this was my mission field.”
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