Our Social Initiatives (Our Why)
Our Social Initiatives. The initial focus of Soteria Worx is three-fold. Two of the three initiatives address what we believe are immediate needs in the communities we serve. To our knowledge, they are not being actively addressed by any other for-profit business or non-profit organization. The third initiative addresses a global social ill that we are even more deeply passionate about. It is something that we feel is at the top of the list of all the worst social ills that plague our world.
Home Rehabilitation for At-Risk Homeowners
Initiative One. To provide free and/or deeply discounted home repair and home improvement services to low income, elderly, and minority households where repairs or improvements are needed in order to preserve the safety and well-being of its owners.
It’s a growing problem in our communities. Many of our neighbors have fallen on hard times. Covid. Rising unemployment. a forty year high inflation rate. Rising taxes and healthcare costs for the working class. Rising food costs, utility costs, and automobile costs. For many, the times we are now experiencing are financially overwhelming.
These realities prevent homeowners from making much needed repairs or improvements to their homes. Many times, through no fault of their own, homeowners have started renovations on their homes, but because of extenuating circumstances like those just mentioned, they cannot afford to complete their renovations.
A homeowner with a home in poor repair or left unfinished, could eventually lose their home as a result of it being condemned by local code enforcement as being unsafe to live in – all because of the lack of means to pay for those repairs. It’s a big problem. While we can’t meet all of the needs of all of these households who need help in our community, we can make a positive difference in the lives of those we do help. We do this by providing the repairs and improvements to their homes that they need at little or no cost to the homeowner. We call it a “social good discount”.
In addition to giving of our time, talents, and treasures to help make a difference in homeowner’s lives, we endeavor to develop partnerships with local construction companies, service companies, building material suppliers, and a growing network of volunteers who will lock arms with us in making a positive difference in the lives of the families we help.
We believe that if we come together with others who care about the things we care about, that we will see bridges built in the communities we live and work in that will reach across economic and racial barriers, restore trust and respect, and bring much needed healing to our communities that have suffered from divisive politics and radical social agendas.
Youth Apprenticeship and Mentoring
Initiative Two. To develop a two-fold youth program that includes a teen vocational apprenticeship program and a long-term character development mentorship program for at-risk minority teens while they are completing their high school education.
Apprenticeship programs allow young men and women as young as 15 years old to learn a trade or vocation, and gain the necessary skills they need to compete in a highly competitive marketplace. This is done through partnerships with local companies who subscribe to our social impact initiatives and want to help the youth of our community be successful.
Along with building a vibrant vocational apprenticeship program, we endeavor to develop a long-term mentorship program where college students and athletes, business owners, and corporate executives come alongside of our apprenticeship program participants and invest into their character.
Our goal in this is to help our teenaged participants develop strong work ethics, noble characters, and positive, outward-focused attitudes that will help them grow in their understanding of what it means to be a responsible, independent, contributing member of society.
Child Sex Slave Rescue
Initiative Three. To actively aid in the rescue and rehabilitation of children and young adults who are held captive in the sex slavery industry and/or who are being trafficked into the organ harvesting industry.
Sex Trafficking and organ harvesting statistics are not exacting, but most agencies who monitor human trafficking estimate that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year. Of this number, seventy-percent (70%) are female and fifty-percent (50%) are children. This does not account for the over four million women and children who remain captive in their own countries and are exploited sexually. Almost without exception, most of the children who are presently being trafficked are young boys and girls, are are not yet even teenagers. We have been told by the organization we support that children as young as three years old have been rescued out of sex slavery. Three years old. Let this sink in for a moment.1
Human Organ Trafficking statistics estimate that some 12,000 illegal organ transplants occur annually and is presently a $1.5 billion industry. The organs used are most often from children and unwilling young adults (teenagers) who are either kidnapped by or sold to human traffickers who perpetuate this egregiously evil crime against the most vulnerable of our society.
The primary organization that we endeavor to support is focused on Southeastern Asia where many local authorities do not view the child sex slavery industry as a crime. This is also where the organ harvesting of trafficked children is a rapidly growing industry.
Would you like to be a part of helping put an end to this sort of suffering, cruelty, and evil? Would you be open to helping with the expenses that are a part of the rescue, rehabilitation, and restoration process of children who are rescued from this evil?
Where Your Money Goes
Where Your Money Goes. Through the efforts of Life for the Innocent (LFTI), a faith-based non-profit, every child who is rescued is provided with a safe home environment, urgently needed nutrition, medical treatment (often requiring surgeries), and most often, long-term mental health therapy. Along with getting a start in their education, each child rescued is placed into the care of loving adoptive parents who have been fully vetted by LFTI. Are they successful? To date, over 20,000 children have been rescued, restored, renewed, and been placed in loving families that we refer to as “forever families.” They no longer have to be fearful of being continually raped or abused from the time they wake up until the last customer of a brothel leaves. And, based on the information we have, no other organization in the world has been more successful at rescuing so many children out of sex and organ trafficking.
Why Work with Soteria Worx?
Why choose Soteria Worx as your handyman, renovations, and maintenance services company of choice? Because a portion of every dollar you spend on fixing up, repairing, or maintaining your home goes towards the social initiatives that Soteria Worx is committed to. Which social initiative would YOU like to support?
1 The photos of children included on this page are real children who have been rescued out of sex slavery.