Jewels 4 God International is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering people in need. Their mission is to train faith-based organizations in making and marketing quality handcrafted jewelry to help them become sustainable and to provide viable job skills and professional counseling services for the exploited, marginalized and disenfranchised people with whom they work; assuring their successful reintegration into society, employability, and financial independence.

Every evening, as the sun sets over a large downtown area of Durban, South Africa, the sex industry thrives. The streets are filled with “massage parlors” fronting as brothels, and young men and women roam around looking to sell their bodies for drugs or cash.

Our World Challenge missions team was walking down a dirty hospital hallway when they first spotted little Zamma. The feeble four-year-old girl was sitting expressionless on a mattress with an intravenous needle stuck in her arm. Zamma’s body was covered with open sores, her ears oozing fluid, her neck and scalp covered in sweat.