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Ky-based Refuge for Women Expanding

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    A Kentucky-based program working to help sexually-exploited women is expanding.  An awareness and fundraising event for the program occurred last weekend in Lexington.

The-faith based Refuge for Women is described as “aftercare for the trafficked and sexually exploited.”  There are four safe houses in Kentucky. Other programs are forming in states such as Georgia and Illinois. 

Janette Collins came to Kentucky from Houston, “I was literally in the streets in multiple states, multiple cities, just being ferried through the streets, selling myself,” Collins is a graduate of the nine-month 24/7 program. 

Another graduate, Justine Lambert, was a dancer for a year before and after a four-year prison term for a DUI-related offense.  “It takes your soul from you, like it does.  It strips you of like life.  You’re living, but you’re dead inside,” noted Lambert.

Lambert believes God brought her to Kentucky.

Refuge for Women founder Ked Frank says 131 women from 14 states have received help at the four safe houses.  The women range in age from 18 to 56.  A second Refuge for Women is operating in Las Vegas with another opening in Chicago.  Others are planned for Miami, Atlanta, and Dallas.?

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