Last Friday, the country’s first anti-slavery commissioner spoke out against the treatment of modern-day slavery victims by the UK authorities. Kevin Hyland said officers don’t know how to handle victims and there could be as many as 13,000 here, but the way they’re received by authorities is morally unacceptable. He plans to train forces to react better when they discover victims (predominantly from Albania, Nigeria and Vietnam). Human trafficking has an annual trade of $32 billion and trafficking is not in any way removed from us. It’s close. It happens where we live, in the nice quiet towns and villages or amid the buzz and loudness of big cities. God cares deeply for humanity and is constantly moved to action. We have the opportunity to intervene proactively in the lives of those who are bound by fear, who have no freedom and who see no way out.