Kimberly Yim — Blog
Thoughts After The Not For Sale Global Forum
I have a lot more sympathy for those mothers out there that travel for work. This is only one of about two trips I have made over this past year without my kids and it is not easy for me to leave. I know I am leaving them in good hands with my husband and so it is not...
Finding LOVE in the dark
I hardly know how to respond to this. This is what paralyzed me. This is what had my heart so broken that I hardly knew how to pray because I was angry at God in allowing this to continue. There is a lot of tragedy in the world and I had come to accept that I live in...
Conflict Minerals 101
Life has a way of getting ahead of me and months go by and suddenly when the house is quite it hits me, "What happened? How is it almost summer? Where did the time go?" Poof! Time sometimes vanishes right before my eyes. This has been the case for the past 10 weeks....
Falling Whistles
The Congo seems to be getting more press these days and this is a good thing. I have been just scratching the surface in understanding the details on how what is going on in the Congo directly impacts us and how we all - all of us technology using people - contribute...
Do I need to be “with” someone?
So this is my latest problem - I'm not "with" someone. Over this past year and a half when I go to meetings such as the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force meeting or to events like the Freedom Summit or when I email different organizations to receive...
The Dark Side of Chocolate Event
Could it be possible that slavery is linked to one of my sweetest luxuries, chocolate? Yep, it is true and yep, it is a big bummer. But don't take my word for it, check out the documentary film, The Dark Side of Chocolate - http://www.thedarksideofchocolate.org/....
Recommended Books
- Refuse To Do Nothing: Find Your Power To Abolish Modern-Day Slavery by Kimberly Yim and Shayne Moore
- The Slave Next Door by Kevin Bales
- Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
- The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It by Victor Malarek
- Terrify No More by Gary A. Haugen
- A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E.Benjamin Skinner
- Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara