Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Giselle Meza. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Giselle, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?
I am a survivor of human trafficking, an active humanitarian and former top model. I witnessed the exploitation and injustice happening to women and children while on my modeling assignments to over 58 countries.
I was moved with love and compassion for the victims of injustice that I met.
I founded Puresa Humanitarian; a non-profit 501c3 in 2008. My mission: to reach, rescue, restore, and provide tangible solutions for victims and survivors of human trafficking with safe homes and 24 hour holistic aftercare for innocent children who were trafficked and sold into a life of forced slavery and bondage.
My life mission and dedication for over two decades has been to rescue, educate and to love innocent child victims, and to empower the rescued women by creating opportunities and job skills training for self-sustainability.
In this way, the cycle of human exploitation has been broken.
Now they are free to live the life that God intended for them.
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❥ We reach poverty stricken and destitute children, women, and families in their villages providing prevention counseling and educating the at risk families and individuals on the dangers and behaviors used by traffickers.
❥ We provide a safe home for at risk children so these children won’t be forced or tricked to leave home for jobs in the city.
❥ We rescue children from being forced to work in brothels and on the streets.
❥ We offer a safe home with a loving atmosphere and complete aftercare to help free them from a life of forced prostitution and enslavement.
❥ We provide skills training for rescued women which creates self-sustainability and opportunity for a future of independence.
PURESA.ORG
Giselle, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I am humbled that through my mission of: providing safe homes, education, complete after care, medical care, skills training programs, feeding programs, and sharing love, by God’s Grace and with my hands on
humanitarian work on the field, I have touched and saved thousands of lives.
I have brought hope and freedom to those who had been tricked, trafficked
and enslaved.
Today these survivors live a life full of Joy, Independence, and Freedom.
I am moved and Blessed to be able to serve these restored and precious innocent souls.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
At the age of 14 years old, an innocent child: I was trafficked. I endured unimaginable trauma, I escaped and I survived. My resiliency, human spirit and will to live, fueled my passion and devotion for my humanitarian work, and
compelled me to create a life-long mission to rescue and restore innocent victims who have been sexually exploited.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Again, I would say, I was trafficked across the world, I escaped and I survived. I was able to overcome fear and trauma and transform those emotions into love and the desire to reach, rescue and restore lives of the most vulnerable women and children in the world.
Contact Info:
- Website: PURESA.ORG
- Other: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GISELLE ON THE FIELD, THERE ARE MANY YOUTUBE VIDEOS. JUST SEARCH GISELLE MEZA & PURESA HUMANITARIAN AS WELL AS THE WEBSITE. TO READ MORE AND TO DONATE: PURESA.ORG
Image Credits
All photos belong to Puresa Humanitarian