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Cinderella’s House: New Alliance Women Ministries Project

July 8, 2009

An estimated 350,000 enslaved prostitutes live in Spain, said Betsy Blanchard in her July 4 ministry update from the southern European nation. “These women are forced to ‘work,’ sometimes 14-hour days, regularly shifted between more than 2,000 legal brothels and other venues. The stories are shocking!”

To assist these women in crisis, God has laid a vision on the heart of this veteran Alliance worker to establish a residential center-”Cinderella’s House.” In a May 2009 article she explained that the home will be “a center for restoration where a hopeless and broken ‘princess’ (a daughter of the King of Kings!) can meet the Prince of Peace and be transformed.”

Alliance Women Ministries has designated the new center as its official project for 2009/2010.

“Almost No Way Out” 

Young women trafficked into Spain for prostitution purposes range in age from 16 to 25, Blanchard said; most are immigrants from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Africa. “Enticed to Spain by what seem to be legitimate jobs, they find themselves enslaved . . . with almost no way out.”

Blanchard returned to Granada, Spain, June 27th from a year-long furlough in the United States that included visiting two residential women’s programs in Nashville, Tennessee. Both centers provided insights that will help to inform the new ministry’s administration.  

“I hope to visit an organization in Madrid next week,” she concluded in her recent update. “[It] is trying to raise awareness of the problem and bring together various groups who are working to address the issues.”

How You Can Help

“Please pray for God’s guidance, His favor, and His provision” Blanchard requested, “to get Cinderella’s House off the drawing board and into reality, so that broken Cinderellas can meet the Prince of Peace and learn that they are deeply loved!”

Donate online to the Cinderella’s House Project-help make this vital ministry a reality!

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Read about our work in Spain.