Children are at the core of everything we do. Clearly children can't be vets, hence the immediate need to stand up a sister org to fund these efforts. The volume of kids we encounter in trap houses and on the dope track is horrifying. We don't simply try to take them away from their parents, we get them and their parents help, let them know they have options beyond living on the track, beyond selling dope, beyond being used as currency and fodder. We send teams of veterans and volunteers into the most dangerous places in America (and elsewhere), to save addicted and homeless Americans, sex trafficked women, missing and exploited children, and Americans trapped in danger abroad. We can only tell a fraction of our stories publicly, but every dime we raised gets put to immediate good use, as not one of our vets nor volunteers takes a check for going on these missions. We fight monsters. We fight evil. We fight things people don't want to acknowledge exist. Things people can't look at. Won't look at. We've been to hell. Walked it. Lived it. It was our existence. Some of us survived it because, at one point, we were monsters ourselves. Others happened to grab an extended hand at just the right time. But regardless of how we left hell, we remember the way out. We will spend our salvation going back in for those left behind. It's our duty. Our calling. Our purpose. Our mission. We fight monsters.
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A t shirt that conveys the attitude of unity we should ALL have - and the ethos that’s mission critical for the work we do on the worst streets in America - grab yours here - https://lnkd.in/e-7UWcCy - all sales fund our work battling human/narco trafficking and housing the survivors in renovated dope houses that we shut down and acquire
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Some issues mandate a transcendence of politics, namely those that are morally and objectively "right". The fights against fentanyl and human trafficking are two of those things, and until we can put party lines behind us and unite around the common goal of loving our neighbors, it's a fight we'll continue losing. This shirt memorializes that concept of unity around what we ALL have in common - we're Americans, and we stand TOGETHER. All proceeds fund our work fighting the twin evils of narco and human trafficking on the worst streets in America, shutting down hot spots and housing survivors - grab one here - https://lnkd.in/eetgk5Vv
We DO recover!
Yall PLEASE watch this video in its entirety and share it around. This documents the 18 month journey my sister Cresia has had from living in the trap house on Woodward Street, South Memphis, with nothing to her name but a habit, to finding a life worth living, getting her partner and grandkids back in her life, then rebuilding a life worth living that is full of purpose today. She went from hopelessly addicted and in jail to sober living to running Sparrow House to living in her own place with her own business getting off the ground. Cresia’s journey is nothing short of miraculous. To highlight that, I’ll point out that a handful of the women in this video with us didn’t make it, in fact one of them was murdered AFTER I compiled the video, just a couple days ago. For any of us to make it out of that life is a miracle, but to make it out and build a life of purpose, and one of service…that’s the most miraculous thing you can ever see. Lucresia is graduating Drug Court in Memphis TN on 7/31, at 1pm, 201 Poplar Court House Auditorium on the second floor - if you’re in Memphis, you should stop by to see it!
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The craziest part about this picture isn’t that each of us escaped death a thousand times…it’s that if Cresia and Daphane hadn’t shown love to Jess and I in our darkest hours, we wouldn’t have gotten clean in 2019 and come back to Memphis, and Jess wouldn’t have been on the other end of a phone the day after Christmas 2021 when Arezo was in her darkest hour in Afghanistan. NEVER underestimate the value of showing kindness, even when you don’t have it all together yourself, it doesn’t mean you can’t change somebody else’s world.
Yall know how we feel about fentanyl and we got a slew of swag that funds our work which expresses it - check it out here - https://lnkd.in/eG9-d6yB
Yall this was a house used to traffic women and dope for years - we shut down the operation, acquired the property, tore it down, and now we’re rebuilding it into a safe house/sober living for women and kids. When complete, we’ll be able to house four family units, a place to reunite kids with sober mamas!!! But, as Chris Bobbitt explains in this video, it’s EXPENSIVE. We need help. Please visit wefightmonsters.org/donate and join us in this battle, whether it’s ten bucks a month or a thousand bucks once or anything in between, we NEED you! Our dream is to see this work spread across America, but we need to be able to show more than one “success” for that to happen. To date, we’ve shuttered three dope houses and gotten north of 200 individuals off the streets, clean, and back into the work force - that’s HUGE and it wouldn’t have happened without YALL! If nothing else, PLEASE like, comment, and share!
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…I miss my friend. And fukFentanyl. Til Valhalla, Brandon 😔